Conference in honor of Dr. Morris Newman's 80th Birthday
Date: April 17th & 18th, 2004
Location: South Hall Room 6635, UCSB - Click
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This is the first announcement of the conference to be held in honor of
Dr. Morris Newman's 80th birthday to be held in April, 2004 on the
Santa Barbara campus of the University of California.
Dr. Newman's research includes work in number theory, linear algebra, computation, and
group theory.
Please reply to Adrian Dan Stanger adrian@math.byu.edu if
you plan on attending. If you would like to speak at this conference, please contact Adrian Dan Stanger adrian@math.byu.edu.
before March 1st, 2004. Most talks will be given on Saturday to accomodate travel schedules.
Local Accomodations: Lodging
Information
Parking Arrangements: Click
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Parking on campus during weekends costs $2 per day per car.
Schedule of Events:
Saturday
| Refreshments | 9:30 | |
| Doug Moore | 10:00 | Welcome/intro |
| Ben Fine | 10:10 | A Cryptosystem Using the Modular Group |
| Fuzhen Zhang | 10:30 | The Schur Complement |
| Ion Zaballa | 10:50 | On localization indices of rational function Matrices |
| Montserrat Alsina | 11:10 | Computing on and touching Shimura Curves |
| Karl Rubin | 11:30 | |
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| Lunch | | |
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| Charles Johnson | 2:00 | |
| Edward Ordman | 2:20 | Semaphores, Threshold Graphs, Hypergraphs, Problems |
| Ahmad El-Guindy | 2:40 | Weierstrass points on modular curves |
| Marvin Knopp | 3:00 | On Multiplier Systems arising in the theory of generalized modular forms |
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| Break | | |
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| Adrian Stanger | 3:40 | Partitions and the ubiquituous function $\eta$ |
| Matt Boylan | 4:00 | Coefficients of half-integral weight modular forms modulo l^j |
| Basil Gordon | 4:20 | Congruences for the Fourier Coefficients of Modular Forms |
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| Reception | 5:00 | |
Sunday
| Refreshments | 9:30 | |
| Neville Robbins | 10:00 | A Ramanujan congruence via two-color partitions |
| Bob Guralnick | 10:20 | Complete Reducibility of Small Representations |
| Larry Gerstein | 10:40 | Invariants of Quadratic Forms |
| Wasin So | 11:00 | Some results on matrix exponentials |
| Charles Ryavec | 11:20 | |
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