Workshop Details
DIMACS Conference on Challenges of Identifying Integer Sequences
- Start Date: October 10, 2014
- End Date: October 11, 2014
- Event Start Time: 8:30 AM
- Event End Time: 4:30 PM
- Organizers: Susanna Cuyler | Eugene Fiorini | Charles Greathouse | Brian Nakamura | Lara Pudwell | Vinay A. Vaishampayan | Doron Zeilberger
- Location: DIMACS Center | Rutgers University | CoRE Building | 96 Frelinghuysen Road
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The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) began in 1996 with 10,000 sequences. The database was started by Neil Sloane in 1964 when, as a graduate student, he began collecting integer sequences on file cards, and was published by Academic Press in 1973 as A Handbook of Integer Sequences, containing 2372 sequences. The popularity of the Handbook eventually led to the publication of The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences by Neil Sloane and Simon Plouffe in 1995, containing 5488 sequences. The website was created a year later and has continued to grow ever since.
This conference will invite participants to discuss the challenges and advances in research in the computational sciences that can be attributed to the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. Conference attendees will participate in discussions on the importance of having an easily accessible database and the difficulties of identifying and computing sequences. The conference will also celebrate three milestones: the 50th birthday of the database, reaching 250,000 sequences, and Sloane's 75th birthday.
- Event Grant: Support for this event was provided by the National Science Foundation under award number DMS-1445898.
- Audiences: General Research
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Attendance at the conference is open to all interested participants (subject to space limitations). Please register if you would like to attend this conference.
Call for Posters: Participants are invited to submit an abstract for a poster presentation during the conference. The topic should be consistent with the conference theme of challenges of identifying, and applications of, integer sequences.
Review of abstracts will begin September 1, 2014 and continue until all slots are filled.
Travel support: We anticipate some funding will be made available to support "early career" researchers to attend the conference. Preference will be given to those early career researchers within 5 years of their doctorate, but we will consider others as funds allow. Applications for financial support will be accepted as soon as there is confirmation of available funds. Please revisit this page for updates on the status of financial support. Early career researchers interested in more information on applying for financial support to attend the conference should contact Dr. Eugene Fiorini at
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