For many years, the South-East Regional Meeting on Numbers (SERMON) has
been a friendly, informal gathering of number theorists and
combinatorialists. We listen to short (20 minute) talks from
professors, graduate students, and even undergraduates; we discuss
interesting problems and we usually meet for a social event at a local
professor's residence. Past conferences have been held at Clemson,
Virginia Tech, and USC; this year's conference will be at UNC-Greensboro
(March 28-30).
Everyone is invited to give a talk; just send an e-mail to
Greg Dresden, dresdeng "at" wlu "dot" edu. Also, the
Number Theory Foundation is providing funding for some student travel.
This year's meeting is hosted by Theresa Vaughn,
with Greg Dresden as co-organizer, and with Kevin James, Bud Brown,
and Paul Duvall providing assistance.
Also, see Kevin James'
SERMON 2002 web page, which has a nice list
of open problems from last year's conference.
Possible speaker on Friday...not settled yet.
The tentative schedule
Friday: party--afternoon, cookout.
Saturday: Talks 9-5 (or thereabouts), Buffet party at Duvalls in the
evening
Sunday: if necessary we could schedule some talks maybe in the morning.
The parties
Friday cook-out is at the Vaughan's house. Come any time in the
afternoon.
Our address is 4112 Dogwood Drive. Brick with red shutters, and a rather
messy front yard, with a couple of large piles of wood-chip mulch. The
home phone is 294-6490; call if you get lost, someone will be home all
day.
There is a big street running more or less North-South
called Holden Road. There are two big streets running more or less
East-West, called Friendly Avenue and Market Street.
Our house is on Dogwood Drive, which runs more or less parallel to
Friendly and Market, and is in between them.
From the intersection of Holden and Friendly: go south on Holden. (If you
come to Market Street, you went too far; turn around!) The
very first cross-street is Dogwood Drive. Turn right on Dogwood and
go a few blocks. Our house is on the right.
From the intersection of Market and Holden: go north on Holden (if you
come to Friendly, you went too far). The last cross-street before
Friendly is Dogwood Drive, turn left on Dogwood and go a few blocks. Our
house is on the right.
The Saturday party-buffet is at the Duvall's house, I told Sandra not to
expect anyone before maybe 5:30. We will pass out maps at the meeting.
Directions
There are maps and detailed directions to Greensboro from out of town, in
all directions, and to the Bryan Building (where SERMON will be)
at the following address:
www.uncg.edu/acm/visitors.html.
Theresa found two motels that will give us reduced rates. Both are near the
Four Seasons mall (a huge thing, near the intersection of I-40 and High
Point Road). (This is 5-10 minutes drive to UNCG, depending on traffic.)
Park Lane Motel,
3005 High Point Road.
336-294-4565.
Say you are with math conference at UNCG. CALL EARLY (they said they
didn't have a lot of rooms free that weekend).
Hampton Inn,
2004 Veasley St.
854-8600 (the area code is probably 336).
Say you are with math conference at UNCG. CALL EARLY.
This one mentioned the reduced rate: $59/night.
Here are a couple of other options, in the same area, but no reduced rates
Comfort Inn - Four Seasons.
2001 Veasley St.
336-294-6220
Travelodge.
2112 W. Meadowview Road
334-292-2020
Veasley Street crosses High Point Road maybe 3-4 blocks along, going from
Four Seasons Mall towards UNCG. There is a cluster of several motels
here, all fairly reasonable.
Meadowview ditto, only it's a couple blocks farther towards UNCG.
The speakers so far
Ezra Brown, VPI, "Finding elliptic curve ranks without pain".
Charles Parry, VPI, "Units and class groups of non-normal cubic
fields and normal closure."
Dmitriy Ivanov, UC-Berkeley, "Average Froberius Distributions for
elliptic curves with points of order 5, 6, 7, or 10."
Mike Mossinghoff, Davidson, "Mahler's Measure of Littlewood Polynomials."
Pante Stanica, Auburn (Montgomery), "Exponents in the factorization
of n!"
Robert Kauffman, UA-Birmingham,
"Generalized Eigenfunction Expansions and Number Theory." (Joint work with Mayumi Sakata.)
Liz Townsend, W&L, "Root Quantum Numbers."
Paul Young, C. Charleston, "Gauss Sums and Multinomial Coefficients."
Michael Filaseta, USC, "On the factorization of f(x)x^n+g(x)."
Daniel C. Morton, Wake Forest, "A
relationship between general and second order linear recurrences."
Elizabeth Perez, Wake
Forest, "Computations of the Partition Function, p(n)."
Jim Blair, UGa, "Embedding Triangles into
Integer Lattices."
Travel Support
Thanks to a generous grant from the Number Theory Foundation, SERMON
now has $500 to support student travel to this year's conference at
UNC-G.
The money will be divided among all students who need it, so please try
to keep your costs down by carpooling, sharing hotel rooms, etc. We
probably won't be able to provide complete reimbursements, but everyone
will get some help.
