Peter Borwein Conference 2008 Presentations

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DateSpeakerTitleHighLowNotes

May 16, 2008
16:45

Various Speakers

Closing Remarks

May 16, 2008
16:15

Bruce Aubertin

Algebraic numbers and harmonic analysis

May 16, 2008
15:45

Joris Van Deun

The Riemann zeta function and asymptotics for Stieltjes fractions

May 16, 2008
15:00

Peter Sziklai

An extreme polynomial with two variables

May 16, 2008
14:30

Michael Filaseta

Miscellaneous problems on the factorization of 0,1-polynomials

May 16, 2008
13:15

Ron Graham

Iterated partitions of triangles

May 16, 2008
12:00

Heinz Bauschke

8 queens, sudoku and projection methods

May 16, 2008
11:30

Arthur Baragar

Ruler and compass constructions

May 16, 2008
10:45

Nathan Ng

The distribution of the Mobius function in short intervals

May 16, 2008
10:15

Colin Ingalls

Noncommutative surfaces

May 16, 2008
09:00

John Friedlander

Selberg and the sieve: a positive approach

May 15, 2008
16:46

Idris Mercer

The cosine problem

May 15, 2008
16:45

Warren Hare

Mathematical challenges and aides to tuning models to complex social systems

May 15, 2008
16:16

Jens Happe

On the relationship between the nonreal zeros and the Fourier critical points of real polynomials

May 15, 2008
16:15

Vahid Dabbaghian

The Impact of Social Interactions on the Spread of HIV Infection among Injection Drug Users: A Cellular Automaton Model

May 15, 2008
15:46

Michael Coons

Sums of completely multiplicative signature functions

May 15, 2008
15:45

Greg Fee

Zeros and poles in Padé approximates to the symmetric zeta function

May 15, 2008
15:00

Greg Martin

Absolutely abnormal numbers

May 15, 2008
14:30

Imin Chen

Quartic Q-derived polynomials with distinct roots

May 15, 2008
13:15

Annie Cuyt

Continued fractions for special functions: handbook and software

May 15, 2008
12:00

Michael Monagan

How fast can we multiply and divide sparse polynomials?

May 15, 2008
11:30

Matt Klassen

Generalized van der Monde determinants, interpolation, and splines

May 15, 2008
10:45

Petr Lisonek

On zeros of Kloosterman sums

May 15, 2008
10:15

Soroosh Yazdani

On maximality of certain Littlewood polynomials

May 15, 2008
09:00

Cam Stewart

Neighbouring Powers

May 14, 2008
16:15

Jonathan Borwein

Peter Borwein revisited

May 14, 2008
15:30

Luis Goddyn

The lower bounds for subset sums

May 14, 2008
15:00

Karl Dilcher

Stern polynomials and continued fractions

May 14, 2008
14:30

Frank Garvan

Congruences for the rank and crank of partitions

May 14, 2008
12:00

Jeffrey Vaaler

A Banach space determined by the Weil height

May 14, 2008
11:30

Chris Smyth

Lehmers problem for integer symmetric matrices

May 14, 2008
10:45

David Borwein

Surprising sinc sums and integrals

May 14, 2008
10:15

Mark Giesbrecht

Detecting perfect powers of lacunary polynomials

May 14, 2008
09:00

Hugh Williams

Primality, proving, polynomials and sieving

May 13, 2008
16:46

Adrian Belshaw

Modular Normality of Integer Sequences

May 13, 2008
16:45

Alexa van der Waall

Priority based allocation of police resources to crime related investigations

May 13, 2008
16:16

Brett Hemenway

Locally-decodable codes based on hidden Chinese remaindering

May 13, 2008
16:15

Chris Sinclair

Repulsion between imaginary quadratic numbers on the unit circle

May 13, 2008
15:30

Nils Bruin

Local-to-global obstructions on curves

May 13, 2008
15:00

John Fournier

Paleys theorem for Hankel matrices via the Schur test

May 13, 2008
14:30

Ping Zhou

Padé approximants associated with functional equations

May 13, 2008
13:15

Michael Mossinghoff

Peter Borwein, plane geometry, polynomials, and polygons

May 13, 2008
12:00

Songping Zhou

Convergence problems of some Fourier series

May 13, 2008
11:30

Richard Askey

Inequalities and special functions

May 13, 2008
10:45

Bruce Richmond

On the maximum of the Stirling numbers

May 13, 2008
10:15

Friedrich Littmann

Approximation of functions that are analytic in a strip

May 13, 2008
09:00

David Bailey

High-performance computing and Peter Borwein

May 12, 2008
16:30

Mark Bauer

The trials and tribulations of cubic function fields in characteristic three

May 12, 2008
16:00

Renate Scheidler

Construction of all cubic function fields of a given discriminant

May 12, 2008
15:15

Jason Bell

Integer factorial ratios

May 12, 2008
14:45

Victor Moll

2-adic valuations of a sequences arising from a rational integral

May 12, 2008
13:30

Tamis Erdelyi

A few highlights of Peter Borweins work with me

May 12, 2008
12:15

Sinai Robins

New measures of discrete volumes for polytopes whose vertices have arbitrary real coordinates

May 12, 2008
11:45

Doron Lubinsky

On the q disease on the unit circle

May 12, 2008
11:00

Agnes Szanto

Moment matrices, trace matrices and the radical of ideals

May 12, 2008
10:30

George Labahn

Recent developments in order basis

May 12, 2008
09:15

Kevin Hare

A history of, and recent results of Beta-expansion

May 12, 2008
09:00

Various Speakers

Opening Remarks