Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, January 24, 2006 12:01:41

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu
James J Tattersall, MAA tat@providence.edu

Friday January 13, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Continued Fractions, I
Organizers:
Nancy Wyshinski, Trinity College Nancy.Wyshinski@trincoll.edu
James G. McLaughlin, Trinity College and West Chester University jmclaughl@wcupa.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Convergence of continued fractions.
  Lisa Lorentzen*, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
  (1014-40-1052)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some Problems Suggested by Ramanujan's Work on Continued Fractions.
  Bruce C Berndt*, University of Illinois
  (1014-11-745)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Multidimensional Continued Fractions and Toric Varieties.
  Thomas Garrity*, Williams
  (1014-11-1068)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Complex Continued Fractions.
  Doug Hensley*, Texas A\& M University
  (1014-11-37)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A Randomized Variant of the Jacobi-Perron Algorithm.
  Richard C. Burge*, Cool, CA
  (1014-11-200)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Quasiconformal Connections Between Continued Fractions and Circle Packings.
  G. Brock Williams*, Texas Tech University
  (1014-30-306)
- 11:30 a.m.
  A proof of the continued fraction expansion of exp(1/M).
  Thomas J. Osler*, Rowan University
  (1014-41-801)

Friday January 13, 2006, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Continued Fractions, II
Organizers:
Nancy Wyshinski, Trinity College Nancy.Wyshinski@trincoll.edu
James G. McLaughlin, Trinity College and West Chester University jmclaughl@wcupa.edu
- 1:00 p.m.
  Ramanujan's continued fractions via orthogonal polynomials.
  Mourad E. H. Ismail*, University of Central Florida
  Dennis Stanton, University of Minnesota
  (1014-33-805)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Szeg\H{o} polynomials and para-orthogonal polynomials on the real line, and the associated continued fractions.
  A. Sri Ranga*, DCCE/IBILCE, Universidade Estadual Paulista
  Cleonice F. Bracciali, DCCE/IBILCE, Universidade Estadual Paulista
  Eliana X. de Andrade, DCCE/IBILCE, Universidade Estadual Paulista
  (1014-33-755)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Parabolic Iterated Function Systems with Applications to the Backward Continued Fractions.
  Eugen Andrei Ghenciu*, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
  (1014-37-809)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Distribution Analysis Using PPC-Continued Fractions.
  William B. Jones, University of Colorado, Boulder
  Walter M. Reid*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
  (1014-30-957)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Continued Fraction Handbook Project.
  William B. Jones*, University of Colorado, Boulder
  (1014-33-408)

Saturday January 14, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Continued Fractions, III
Organizers:
Nancy Wyshinski, Trinity College Nancy.Wyshinski@trincoll.edu
James G. McLaughlin, Trinity College and West Chester University jmclaughl@wcupa.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Accumulation Point Sets for Infinite Matrix Products and Continued Fractions.
  Douglas C Bowman*, Northern Illinois University
  James McLaughlin, West Chester University
  (1014-30-1365)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A $q$-continued fraction and some new proofs of some old continued fraction identities.
  James Mc Laughlin*, West Chester University, West Chester, PA.
  Douglas Bowman, Northern Illinois University
  Nancy J Wyshinski, Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
  (1014-11-1120)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Inhomogeneous Diophantine approximation for irrationals with quasi-periodic continued fractions.
  Mary E. Flahive*, Oregon State University
  Richard T. Bumby, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  (1014-11-217)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Resurrecting the divided cell algorithm for inhomogeneous Diophantine approximation.
  Richard T. Bumby*, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  Mary E. Flahive, Oregon State University
  (1014-11-218)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Expressing real quadratic irrationals as period-two continued fractions and their connections with diophantine approximation.
  Edward B Burger*, Williams College
  (1014-11-746)