Videos of Talks Delivered in SLOANE75/OEIS50 DIMACS Conference on Challenges of Identifying Integer Sequences

This exciting conference took place on October 9 - 10, 2014, and honored guru Neil Sloane (b., Oct. 10, 1939) on his 75th birthday.

It took place at DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

The Organizers were

• Susanna Cuyler, The OEIS Foundation, susanna.cuyler (at) gmail.com
• Eugene Fiorini, DIMACS, gfiorini (at) dimacs.rutgers.edu
• Charles Greathouse, Case Western Reserve University, charles.greathouse (at) case.edu
• Brian Nakamura, CCICADA, bnaka (at) dimacs.rutgers.edu
• Lara Pudwell, Valparaiso University, Lara (dot) Pudwell (at) valpo (dot) edu
• Vinay A. Vaishampayan, DIMACS, vavaishampayan at icloud.com
• Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University, zeilberg (at) math.rutgers.edu

All the videos below were produced and uploaded by Matthew Russell, assisted by Shashank Kanade.

The Conference Program with links to the videos of the Lectures

Thursday, October 9, 2014

• 8:00 - 9:00 Registration Opens

• 7:45 - 8:30 Breakfast

• 8:30 - 8:35 Welcome and Introductions, Eugene Fiorini

• 8:35 - 9:30 Keynote Talk: "The OEIS: The Major Problems" by Neil Sloane, The OEIS Foundation and Rutgers University
  part 1     part 2

• 9:30 - 9:50 Break

• 9:50 - 10:35 "Problem Session I", Brian Nakamura, moderator,
  part 1     part 2

• 10:40 - 11:15 "On Unsettleable Sequences" by John Conway, Princeton University
  part 1     part 2

• 11:20 - 11:55 "Beyond the OEIS: Fingerprint Databases for Theorems" by Sara Billey, University of Washington, and Bridget Tenner, DePaul University
  part 1     part 2

• 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch - DIMACS Lounge, CoRE

• 1:00 - 1:35 "Products of Binomial Coefficients and Farey Fractions" by Jeff C. Lagarias, University of Michigan
  part 1     part 2

• 1:40 - 2:15 "Some Catalan Musings" by Richard Stanley, MIT
  lecture   [the first ten minutes are missing due to a technical glitch]

• 2:20 - 3:20 Break/Working Session

• 3:20 - 3:55 "There be dragons. Thousands!", by Jörg Arndt, Georg Simon Ohm Technische Hochschule Nuremberg
  part 1     part 2

• 4:00 - 4:35 "Counting Arithmetic Formulas", by Edinah Gnang, Purdue University
  lecture

• 4:40 - 5:15 "OEIS meets UGR", by Lara Pudwell, Valparaiso University
  lecture

• 5:20 - 5:45 Reception

• 5:45 - 9:00 Banquet

Friday, October 10, 2014

• 8:00 - 9:00 Registration Opens

• 8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast Set up Posters

• 9:00 - 9:35 "40 Years with Sloane's Integer Sequences", by Jeffrey Shallit, University of Waterloo
  part 1     part 2

• 9:40 - 10:15 "Two Computation-Heavy Sequences" by Russ Cox, Google
  part 1     part 2

• 10:20 - 12:30 Poster Session

• 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch - DIMACS Lounge, CoRE

• 2:00 - 2:35 "Multilinear Recurrence Relation Sequences" by Michael Somos, Georgetown University
  [Michael Somos did not wish to be filmed]

• 2:40 - 3:00 Break

• 3:00 - 3:30 "Problem Session II", Brian Nakamura, moderator,
  session

• 3:30 - 4:30 Keynote Talk: "Analogies and Sequences: Intertwined Patterns of Integers and Patterns of Thought Processes", by Douglas Hofstadter, Indiana University
  part 1     part 2

• 4:30 Conclusion