From A = B to Z = 60

Conference in Honor of Doron Zeilberger's 60th Birthday

May 27 - 28, 2010. Rutgers University.

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Program

Invited talks are 40 minutes. Student and contributed talks are 15 minutes. Between talks, 5 minutes will be allotted for questions and for the next speaker to set up.

Thursday, May 27, 2010 (DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University)
9:00   -   9:30 Registration and Breakfast
9:30   -   10:15 How to lose as little as possible
Herb Wilf, University of Penn
10:15   -   11:00 Tangent and Secant q-Calculus and (t,q)-Calculus
Dominique Foata, University of Strasbourg, France
11:00   -   11:15 Coffee break
11:15   -   12:00 Some problems for Doron and his pet, Shalosh B. Ekhad
Richard Askey, University of Wisconsin
12:00   -   1:00 Lunch
1:00   -   1:20 Trudging through the 2-Large Conjecture
Aaron Robertson, Colgate University
1:20   -   1:40 The Combinatorialization of Linear Recurrences
Art Benjamin, Harvey Mudd College
1:40   -   2:00 Teaching Shalosh to sort by reversals
Vince Vatter, Dartmouth College
2:00   -   2:45 Ask Not What Doron Zeilberger Can Do For You, Ask What You Can Do For Doron Zeilberger
Aviezri Fraenkel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2:45   -   3:05 Skew diagrams and ordered trees
Melkamu Zeleke, William Paterson University
3:05   -   3:20Coffee break
3:20   -   3:40 Two binomial coefficient conjectures
Eric Rowland, Tulane University
3:40   -   4:00 Extensions of Rowland's Prime-Generating Sequence
Dennis Hou, Rutgers University
4:00   -   4:45 The ABZ of Symbolic Computation in Combinatorics
Peter Paule, University of Linz, Austria
4:45   -   5:05 Proof of George Andrews' and David Robbins' q-TSPP Conjecture
Christoph Koutschan, Tulane University
5:05   -   5:25 Experimental techniques applied to convergence of rational difference equations
Emilie Hogan, Rutgers University
5:25   -   6:10 The negative q-binomial coefficient
Dennis Stanton, University of Minnesota
6:10  Banquet will be held in Hill Center 703
 
Friday, May 28, 2010 (DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University)
8:30   -   9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00   -   9:45 False Theta Functions, Mock Theta Functions, and Orthogonal Polynomials
George Andrews, Penn State University
9:45   -   10:05 Experiments with Exponential Sums over the Binary Field
Luis Medina, University of Puerto Rico
10:05   -   10:20 Pattern avoidance and alternating sign matrices
Arvind Ayyer, Institut de Physique Theorique, France
10:20   -   10:35 Coffee break
10:35   -   11:20 Some recursive formulas for Selberg-type integrals
Toufik Mansour, University of Haifa, Israel
11:25   -   11:40 Modular Decomposition and Graph Reconstruction
Robert Brignall, University of Bristol, UK
11:40   -   12:00 On the number of non-overlapping permutations
Miklos Bona, University of Florida
12:00   -   1:00 Lunch
1:00   -   1:20 All I Really Need To Know, I Learned From Dr. Z.
Andrew Sills, Georgia Southern University
1:20   -   1:40 On joint distribution of adjacencies, descents and some Mahonian statistics
Alexander Burstein, Howard University
1:40   -   2:25 Zeilberger meets Jones and Thurston
Stavros Garoufalidis, Georgia Tech
2:25   -   2:45 A New Algorithm on Multi-Hypergeometic Summations and its q-Analog
Xinyu Sun, Xavier University of Louisiana
2:45   -   3:00 Coffee break
3:00   -   3:45 Some problems coming from the evaluation of integrals
Victor Moll, Tulane University
3:45   -   4:05 Mahler's measure and the WZ algorithm
Mat Rogers
4:05   -   4:25 Patterns Avoidance in Self-Avoiding Walks
Shanzhen Gao, Florida Atlantic University
4:25   -   4:45 Descent sets of cyclic permutations
Sergi Elizalde, Dartmouth College
4:45   -   5:30 The Joys of Mathematics with Doron
David Bressoud, Macalester College

The program with abstracts is also available at the DIMACS site for the conference.

 

List of participants:

This is a list of participants who are currently registered for the conference. The list will be updated periodically.