Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session

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Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Diego Convention Center and San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina, San Diego, CA
January 9-12, 2013 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1086

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Gerard A Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu

• Friday January 11, 2013, 1:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on the Coverings of the Integers
  Room 17B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Carrie E. Finch, Washington and Lee University finchc@wlu.edu
  Lenny Jones, Shippensburg University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    An approach to odd covering systems.
    Pace P. Nielsen*, Brigham Young University
    (1086-11-341)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Erdős, van der Corput, and the birth of covering congruences.
    Carl Pomerance*, Dartmouth College
    (1086-11-350)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A polynomial problem of Turán modulo primes.
    Michael Filaseta*, University of South Carolina
    (1086-11-2641)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Bounds on the largest modulus of a covering with a fixed smallest modulus.
    Ognian Trifonov*, University of South Carolina
    (1086-11-1366)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Nonlinear Sierpiński and Riesel Numbers.
    Carrie Finch, Washington and Lee University
    Joshua Harrington, University of South Carolina
    Lenny Jones*, Shippensburg University
    (1086-11-1799)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Variant of a theorem of Erdős on the sum-of-proper-divisors function.
    Carl B. Pomerance, Dartmouth College
    Hee-Sung Yang*, Dartmouth College
    (1086-11-70)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A polynomial investigation inspired by work of Schinzel and Sierpiński.
    Joshua Harrington*, University of South Carolina
    Michael Filaseta, University of South Carolina
    (1086-11-553)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Strongly Coloring Pythagorean Triples using Covering Systems.
    Joshua Cooper, University of South Carolina
    Joshua Harrington, University of South Carolina
    Daniel White*, University of South Carolina
    (1086-11-838)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Recent undergraduate research on coverings.
    Mark Kozek*, Whittier College
    (1086-11-1497)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Sierpiński numbers with special properties.
    R. Scott Groth*, Washington and Lee University
    Olivier Mahame, Washington and Lee University
    Jean Luc Mugabe, Washington and Lee University
    Braedon Suminski, Washington and Lee University
    Wenda Tu, Washington and Lee University
    (1086-11-2581)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Generating Composites by Appending Digits to Certain Types of Integers.
    Lenny Jones, Shippensburg University
    Maria Elena Markovich*, Shippensburg University
    (1086-11-1784)