Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:38

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Phoenix, AZ, January 7-10, 2004
Meeting #993

• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Continued Fractions, I
  Organizers:
  James G. McLaughlin, Trinity College
  Nancy J. Wyshinski, Trinity College nancy.wyshinski@trincoll.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Survey on $q$-Continued Fractions in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook.
    Bruce C. Berndt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (993-11-1119)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Moment Problem and a Family of Integral Evaluations.
    Mourad E.H. Ismail*, University of Central Florida
    (993-33-1575)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Simultaneous diophantine approximation in the vector space ${\Bbb Q} +{\Bbb Q}\alpha$.
    Edward B Burger*, Williams College
    (993-11-755)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Systems of orthogonal polynomials arising from the modular $j$-function.
    Stephanie Basha, Santa Clara University
    Jayce Robert Getz*, Harvard
    Harris Nover, California Institue of Technology
    Emma Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (993-11-777)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Two-Dimensional Minkowski Question Mark Function.
    Olga R. Beaver, Williams
    Thomas Garrity*, Williams
    (993-11-1075)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Continued Fractions, II
  Organizers:
  James G. McLaughlin, Trinity College
  Nancy J. Wyshinski, Trinity College nancy.wyshinski@trincoll.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Analytic Theory and Application of Continued Fractions, A Survey.
    William B. Jones*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (993-30-1195)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Truncated rational moment problems and quadratures.
    Xin Li*, University of Central Florida
    (993-41-1335)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Simultaneous diophantine approximation to successive powers of a real algebraic integer.
    Doug Hensley*, Texas A&M University
    (993-11-1164)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Continued Fractions Associated with Solution of a Wave Equation.
    Brian A. Hagler*, University of Texas of the Permian Basin
    (993-33-849)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An Euler-Minding theorem for $G$-continued fractions.
    Geumlan Choi*, University of Illinois
    Douglas Bowman, Northern Illinois University
    (993-11-1026)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On a class of classical polynomials, uniformly approximating the checkmark function.
    P D Dragnev*, Indiana-Purdue University
    D A Legg, Indiana-Purdue University
    D W Townsend, Indiana-Purdue University
    (993-41-1073)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Many Vistas of Continued Fractions.
    Richard A Mollin*, University of Calgary
    (993-11-756)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Applications of Brooks's Continued Fraction Parameter to Riemann Surfaces and QC Maps.
    G Brock Williams*, Texas Tech University
    (993-30-111)