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2003 Spring Western Section Meeting
San Francisco, CA, May 3-4, 2003
Meeting #987

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Special Session on Q-Series and Partitions

  • Saturday May 3, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
    Special Session on Q-Series and Partitions, I

    Room 210, Thornton Hall
    Organizers:
    Neville Robbins, San Francisco State University robbins@math.sfsu.edu

    • 8:30 a.m.
      Divisibility properties of p-regular partition functions.
      David K Penniston*, Furman University
      (987-11-152)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      Gordon's Theorem For Overpartitions.
      Jeremy Lovejoy*, CNRS, Universite Bordeaux I, and University of Wisconsin
      (987-11-85)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Arithmetic properties of the partition function.
      Matthew G. Boylan*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      (987-11-82)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Congruence properties of the partition function $p(n)$.
      Ken Ono*, University of Wisconsin
      Jan Bruinier, University of Cologne
      (987-11-52)
  • Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
    Special Session on Q-Series and Partitions, II

    Room 210, Thornton Hall
    Organizers:
    Neville Robbins, San Francisco State University robbins@math.sfsu.edu

    • 3:00 p.m.
      A new formula for 9 squares.
      Stephen C Milne*, The Ohio State University
      (987-11-96)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Gollnitz-Gordon partitions with weights and parity conditions.
      Krishnaswami Alladi*, University of Florida
      Alexander Berkovich, University of Florida
      (987-11-56)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Statistics on Schr\"oder paths and Symmetric Functions.
      E. S. Egge, Gettysburg College
      J. Haglund*, University of Pennsylvania
      K. Killpatrick, Pepperdine University
      D. Kremer, Gettysburg College
      (987-05-74)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Identities for the total number of parts in all partitions of an integer.
      Neville Robbins*, San Francisco State University
      Arnold Knopfmacher, University of the Witwatersrand
      (987-11-50)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      A classical treatment of the divisibility properties of $p(n)$.
      Dennis A Eichhorn*, University of Arizona
      (987-11-136)
  • Sunday May 4, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
    Special Session on Q-Series and Partitions, III

    Room 210, Thornton Hall
    Organizers:
    Neville Robbins, San Francisco State University robbins@math.sfsu.edu

    • 9:00 a.m.
      A reciprocity theorem for certain $q$-series found in Ramanujan's lost notebook.
      Bruce C. Berndt, University of Illinois
      Song Heng Chan, University of Illinois
      Boon Pin Yeap, University of Illinois
      Ae Ja Yee*, University of Illinois
      (987-05-128)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      On the parity of partition functions.
      Bruce C. Berndt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      Ae Ja Yee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      Alexandru Zaharescu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      (987-11-41)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      On a Partition Problem of Richard Stanley.
      George E. Andrews*, The Pennsylvania State University
      (987-11-83)
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