Sunday, July 12

MS5
Enumerative Combinatorics and Related Applications

3:30 PM-6:00 PM
Room: Sidney Smith 1072

This minisymposium focuses on some aspects of enumeration that have been of great value in physics and computer science. The speakers will highlight some of the most recent effective approaches. They will discuss the applications of algebraic combinatorics to sub-atomic physics, the interaction of algebraic combinatorics and quantum gravity, new discoveries relating to enumerative theorems on partitions and exactly solved models in statistical mechanics, and applications of these same methods to problems in computer science.

Organizer: George E. Andrews
Pennsylvania State University
3:30 Differential Posets, Down-Up Algebras, and Deformations of sl(2)
Georgia Benkart, University of Wisconsin, Madison
4:00 On Birth Processes, Weighted Urn Models and Symmetric Polynomials
Thomas Bickel, Nicola Galli and Klaus Simon, ETH-Zentrum, Switzerland
4:30 Enumerative Conjectures on Ramified Coverings of the Sphere and Ordered Factorizations of Permutations
David M. Jackson, University of Waterloo, Canada
5:00 A. Trinomial Analogue of Bailey's Lemma and Its Applications
George E. Andrews, Organizer; and Alexander Berkovich, State University of New York, Stony Brook
5:30 The Borwein Conjecture
George E. Andrews, Organizer
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LMH, 2/23/98; MMD, 5/29/98