From A=B to Z=60
Conference in Honor of Doron Zeilberger's 60th Birthday

May 27 - 28, 2010
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Scientific Committee:
George Andrews, Penn State University, AMS President
Victor Moll, Tulane University
Jim Propp, University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Aaron Robertson, Colgate University
Herb Wilf, University of Pennsylvania
Melkamu Zeleke, William Paterson University

Joint hosted by DIMACS and the Rutgers Math Department.


Workshop Program:


Thursday, May 27, 2010

 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 -  3:20  coffee 

 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, Johannes Kepler University 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

 6:20	       Dinner at the Hill Center, Room 703

Friday, May 28, 2010

 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


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