Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Thursday, January 15, 2009 00:44:10

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Washington, DC, January 5-8, 2009 (Monday - Thursday)
Meeting #1046

• Monday January 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Experimental Mathematics, I
  Harding Room, Mezzanine Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Tewodros Amdeberhan, Tulane University
  Luis A. Medina, Tulane University
  Victor H. Moll, Tulane University vhm@math.tulane.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Towards a Classification of Periodic Orbits of Particular Fractal Billiards.
    Michel L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
    Robert G. Niemeyer*, University of California, Riverside
    (1046-37-945)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Towards a proof of the q-TSPP conjecture.
    Christoph Koutschan*, RISC, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
    (1046-05-1749)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some divisibility properties for Stirling numbers of the second kind.
    O-Yeat Chan*, Dalhousie University
    Dante Manna, Virginia Wesleyan College
    (1046-11-1271)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Experimentation at the frontier of reality in Schubert calculus.
    Frank Sottile*, Texas A&M University
    (1046-14-1705)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Enumeration Schemes for Barred Permutation Patterns.
    Lara K. Pudwell*, Valparaiso University
    (1046-05-936)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Grid graphs, Gorenstein polytopes, and domino stackings.
    Matthias Beck*, San Francisco State University
    Christian Haase, Freie Universität Berlin
    Steven Sam, MIT
    (1046-05-837)
• Monday January 5, 2009, 2:15 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Experimental Mathematics, II
  Harding Room, Mezzanine Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Tewodros Amdeberhan, Tulane University
  Luis A. Medina, Tulane University
  Victor H. Moll, Tulane University vhm@math.tulane.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    On the greatest common divisor of $a^n-1$ and $b^n-1$.
    Joseph H. Silverman*, Brown University
    (1046-11-361)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Algorithmic Proofs for Special Function Identities.
    Flavia Stan*, RISC, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
    (1046-33-1638)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Isodiametric problems for equilateral polygons.
    Michael J. Mossinghoff*, University of South Carolina and Davidson College
    (1046-52-1511)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:15 p.m.
    New formulas for Euler log-trigonometric integrals.
    Olivier Oloa*, University of Versailles
    (1046-33-1183)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Asymptotics and Zeros for Polynomials from Combinatorics.
    Robert P. Boyer*, Drexel University
    William M. Y. Goh, University of Science and Technology of China
    (1046-05-276)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Asymptotics of Bernoulli, Euler, and Strodt Polynomials.
    Timothy B Flowers*, Clemson University
    Neil J Calkin, Clemson University
    (1046-33-404)