DIMACS Conference on Challenges of Identifying Integer Sequences

October 9 - 10, 2014
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Susanna Cuyler, The OEIS Foundation, susanna.cuyler (at) gmail.com

Eugene Fiorini, DIMACS, gfiorini (at) dimacs.rutgers.edu

Charles Greathouse, Case Western Reserve University, charles.greathouse (at) case.edu

Brian Nakamura, CCICADA, bnaka (at) dimacs.rutgers.edu

Lara Pudwell, Valparaiso University, Lara (dot) Pudwell (at) valpo (dot) edu

Vinay A. Vaishampayan, DIMACS, vavaishampayan at icloud.com

Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University, zeilberg (at) math.rutgers.edu

Conference Program:

Thursday, October 9, 2014

 8:00 -  9:00  Registration Opens
		
 7:45 -  8:30  Breakfast
	
 8:30  - 8:35  Welcome and Introductions,
               Eugene Fiorini
	
 8:35 -  9:30  Keynote Talk: The OEIS: The Major Problems
               Neil Sloane, The OEIS Foundation and Rutgers University

 9:30 -  9:50  Break

 9:50 - 10:35  Problem Session
               Brian Nakamura, moderator

10:40 - 11:15  On Unsettleable Sequences
               John Conway, Princeton University
	
11:20 - 11:55  Beyond the OEIS: Fingerprint Databases for Theorems
               Sara Billey, University of Washington, and Bridget Tenner, DePaul University
	
12:00 -  1:00  Lunch - DIMACS Lounge, CoRE

 1:00 -  1:35  Products of Binomial Coefficients and Farey Fractions
               Jeff C. Lagarias, University of Michigan
	
 1:40 -  2:15  Some Catalan Musings
               Richard Stanley, MIT
	
 2:20 -  3:20  Break/Working Session
	
 3:20 -  3:55  There be dragons. Thousands!
               Jörg Arndt, Georg Simon Ohm Technische Hochschule Nuremberg
	
 4:00 -  4:35  Counting Arithmetic Formulas
               Edinah Gnang, Purdue University
	
 4:40 -  5:15  OEIS meets UGR
               Lara Pudwell, Valparaiso University
	
 5:20 -  5:45  Reception 
	
 5:45 -  9:00  Banquet

Friday, October 10, 2014

 8:00 -  9:00  Registration Opens	
		
 8:00 -  9:00  Breakfast
               Set up Posters	
		
 9:00 -  9:35  40 Years with Sloane's Integer Sequences
               Jeffrey Shallit, University of Waterloo	
		
 9:40 - 10:15  Two Computation-Heavy Sequences
               Russ Cox, Google
		
10:20 - 12:30  Poster Session

12:30 -  2:00  Lunch -	DIMACS Lounge, CoRE

 2:00 -  2:35  Multilinear Recurrence Relation Sequences
               Michael Somos, Georgetown University
		
 2:40 -  3:00  Break

 3:00 -  3:30  Problem Solution Session
               Brian Nakamura, moderator
	
 3:30 -  4:30  Keynote Talk: Analogies and Sequences: Intertwined Patterns of Integers and Patterns of Thought Processes
               Douglas Hofstadter, Indiana University
	
 4:30	       Conclusion

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