Combinatorics, Special Functions and Computer Algebra
A workshop at the occasion of Peter Paule's 60th birthday
Thursday, May 17
09:30-10:00: Bruno Buchberger Mathematics: Natural Intelligence abstract slides
10:00-10:20: Coffee break
10:20-11:10: Johann Cigler Some Hankel determinants with nice evaluations abstract slides
11:10-12:00: Marko Petkovšek Definite sums as solutions of linear recurrence equations slides
12:00-14:00: Lunch break
14:00-15:00: George E. Andrews (key note speaker) Ramanujan's Lost Notebook in Five Volumes__Reflections abstract slides
15:00-15:20: Coffee break
15:20-16:10: Mark Giesbrecht Eigenvalues, invariant factors and random integer matrices abstract
16:10-16:25: Coffee break
16:25-16:55: Johannes Blümlein Large-Scale Mathematica Calculations in Precision Quantum Field Theory slides
16:55-17:25: Stefan Gerhold Recollections of my time in Peter's group slides
17:25-17:55: Silviu Radu A Special Module in the Field of Modular Functions slides
17:55-18:10+ε: Short speeches
Friday, May 18
09:30-10:20: Matthias Beck Chain Partition Analysis abstract slides
10:20-10:40: Coffee break
10:40-11:30: Joachim von zur Gathen Combinatorics on polynomial equations: do they describe nice varieties? abstract slides
11:30-12:20: Sergei Abramov Reduction of matrices of difference operators and inverse matrix computation slides
12:20-14:00: Lunch break
14:00-14:50: Adalbert Kerber Evaluation slides
14:50-15:10: Coffee break
15:10-16:00: Mourad Ismail A polynomial version of the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities and Ramanujan type functions &esnp; slides
16:00-16:50: Volker Strehl Solving a linear system symbolically - how and why slides