SERMON 2003

	SouthEast Regional Meeting On Numbers
	University of North Carolina, Greensboro
	March 28-30, 2003.

Information

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 was held at UNC-Greensboro (March 28-30).

This year's meeting was hosted by Theresa Vaughn, with Greg Dresden as co-organizer, and with Kevin James, Bud Brown, and Paul Duvall providing assistance. You may want to view the original announcement. Also, see Kevin James' SERMON 2002 web page, which has a nice list of open problems from last year's conference.

The speakers:

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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."
Daniel C. Morton, Wake Forest, "A relationship between general and second-order linear recurrences."

The parties

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The Friday cook-out was at the Vaughan's house.
The Saturday party-buffet was at the Duvall's house.

The Problem Session

(to appear).

Travel Support

Thanks to a generous grant from the Number Theory Foundation, SERMON was able to fund student travel to UNC-G. Travis Kidd (USC), Jim Blair (UGa), and Mark Kozek (USC) were each given support.

Gregory Dresden, Department of Mathematics at Washington & Lee University