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Program Saturday, March 18 9:00 - 9:20 Matt Boylan, University of South Carolina Nonvanishing of p(n) modulo small primes 9:30 - 9:50 Mike Mossinghoff, Davidson College Mean values of Mahler's measure 10:00 - 10:20 Bruce Berndt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign A double series of Bessel functions related to sums of squares in Ramanujan's lost notebook 10:30 - 10:50 James Carter, College of Charleston Leopoldt and Hilbert-Speiser fields of given type 11:00 - 11:20 Mark Kozek, University of South Carolina On some special composite numbers 11:20-1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 1:50 Michael Filaseta, University of South Carolina Truncated binomial expansions 2:00 - 2:20 Augustine O'Keefe, Wake Forest University Recurrences on ranked posets 2:30 - 2:50 Darrin Doud, Brigham Young University Local corrections of discriminant bounds and small degree extensions of quadratic fields 3:00 - 3:20 Filip Saidak, Wake Forest University Descartes numbers 3:30 - 3:50 Robert Rumely, University of Georgia A finiteness property of torsion points 4:00 Problem session Sunday, March 19 9:00 - 9:20 Konstantin Oskolkov, University of South Carolina Continued fractions and a problem of Chowla 9:30 - 9:50 Griff Elder, Virginia Tech Truncated exponentiation and elementary abelian local field extensions 10:00 - 10:20 Carrie Finch, University of South Carolina Irreducibility of 0,1-polynomials with exponents in arithmetic progression 10:30 - 10:50 Paul Young, College of Charleston On Lucas-Bernoulli numbers 11:00 - 11:20 Tim Flowers, Clemson University A proof that requires counting isomorphism classes of elliptic curves over F_p 11:30 - 11:50 John Foley, Wake Forest University Periodicity and patterns in nonlinear difference equations |