QUADRATIC FORMS, SUMS OF SQUARES,
THETA FUNCTIONS AND INTEGRAL
LATTICES CONFERENCE

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Location. All talks are in Little Hall Room 101.
Refreshments will be in Little Hall Room 339, which also known as the Atrium.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

9:00am - 9:50am
Noam Elkies, Harvard University
Weighted theta functions, and a coding analog

10:00am - 10:20am
Ryan Skip Garibaldi, Emory University
Vanishing of trace forms on Lie algebras

10:30am - 11:00am
BREAK

11:00am - 11:50am
Jonathan Hanke, University of Georgia at Athens
The 290-Theorem and representing numbers by quadratic forms

12:00pm - 2:00pm
LUNCH

2:00pm - 2:20pm
Guillermo Mantilla, University of Wisconsin
Integral trace forms associated to cubic extensions

2:30pm - 2:50pm
John Voight, University of Vermont
Characterizing quaternion rings

3:00pm - 3:20pm
Gabriele Nebe, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Automorphism groups of Type II codes

3:30pm - 4:00pm
BREAK

4:00pm - 4:20pm
Byungchan Kim, University of Illinois, Urbana
Combinatorics of partial theta functions

4:30pm - 4:50pm
Jaebum Sohn, Yonsei University, Korea / University of Illinois
Character analogues of theorems of Ramanujan, Koshliakov and Guinand

5:10pm - 6:00pm
Akshay Venkatesh, Stanford University
Geometry of Numbers, Old and New

7:00pm - 9:00pm
BANQUET at the Friends of the Music Room

Thursday, March 12, 2009

9:00am - 9:50am
Raman Parimala, Emory University
Isotropy of quadratic forms over function fields of p-adic curves

10:00am - 10:20am
Hershel Farkas, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Theta Constant Identities and Number Theory

10:30am - 11:00am
BREAK

11:00am - 11:50am
George Andrews, Pennsylvania State University
Parity in Partition Identities

2:00pm - 2:50pm
Robert Griess , University of Michigan
Barnes-Wall Lattices and their Cousins

3:00pm - 3:20pm
Hideyo Sasaki, Otemae College, Itami, Japan
Quaternary universal forms over \bf{Q}$(\sqrt{13})$

3:30pm - 4:00pm
BREAK

4:00pm - 4:20pm
Jeremy Rouse, University of Illinois, Urbana
Bounds for the coefficients of powers of the $\Delta$-function

4:30pm - 4:50pm
Ae Ja Yee, Pennsylvania State University
Parity Problems in Partitions

5:00pm - 5:30pm
Kagan Kursungoz, Pennsylvania State University
Parity Considerations in Andrews-Gordon Identities

7:30pm - 10:00pm
PARTY at the home of Krishna and Mathura Alladi

Friday, March 13, 2009

9:00am - 9:50am
Rainer Schulze-Pillot, Saarland University, Saarbruecken
Representation of quadratic forms

10:00am - 10:20am
Roger Baker, Brigham Young University
The values of quadratic forms at squarefree points

10:30am - 11:00am
BREAK

11:00am - 11:50am
Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin
Heegner divisors, L-functions and Maass forms

12:00pm - 2:00pm
LUNCH

2:00pm - 2:50pm
John Thompson , University of Florida and Cambdridge
Dirichlet Series and SL(2,Z)

3:00pm - 3:20pm
Amanda Folsom, University of Wisconsin
q-series and weight 3/2 Maass forms

3:30pm - 4:00pm
BREAK

4:00pm - 4:20pm
Riad Masri , University of Wisconsin
Equidistribution of Heegner points and the partition function

4:30pm - 4:50pm
Atul Dixit, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Analogues of a transformation formula of Ramanujan

5:00pm - 5:30pm
Heiko Todt, Pennsylvania State University
Asymptotic formulas for partitions into (distinct) k-th powers

Saturday, March 14, 2009

9:00am - 9:50am
Bruce Berndt, University of Illinois, Urbana
Ramanujan's Contributions to Theta Functions

10:00am - 10:20am
Karl Mahlburg, MIT
Asymptotics for crank and rank moments

10:30am - 11:00am
BREAK

11:00am - 11:50am
Stephen C. Milne, The Ohio State University
Sums of squares, the Leech lattice, and new formulas for Ramanujan's tau function and other classical cusp forms

12:00pm - 2:00pm
LUNCH

2:00pm - 2:20pm
Sander Zwegers, University College Dublin
Multivariable Appell functions and non-holomorphic modular forms

2:30pm - 2:50pm
Richard McIntosh, University of Regina, Canada
Divisor sums and theta functions

3:00pm - 3:20pm
James Sellers, Pennsylvania State University
Elementary proofs of parity results for 5--regular partitions

3:30pm - 4:00pm
BREAK

4:00pm - 4:20pm
Andrew Sills, Georgia Southern University
A new look at some partition identities of Goellnitz

4:30pm - 4:50pm
Michael Rowell, Pacific University
Obtaining New Indefinite Quadratic Forms

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Last update made Tue Mar 10 18:41:33 EDT 2009.

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