Program

Morning, August 2, 2004. Chair: Richard Askey

8:50am-9:20am   Photo 9:40am-10:00am Richard Askey Welcome Speech [photos] 10:00am-10:45am George E. Andrews Entire functions in Ramanujan's lost notebook [photos] 11:00am-11:45am Molin Ge Yang-Mills and Yang-Baxter [photos]

Afternoon, August 2, 2004. Chair: Peter Paule

2:00pm-2:45pm Ronald C. King Affine Weyl groups, grids and coloured tableaux [photos] 2:55pm-3:40pm Alain Lascoux Jacobi's thesis and the Lagrange interpolation [photos] 4:00pm-4:25pm Yasushi Kajihara An approach to the multiple hypergeometric transformation through the Cauchy kernel [photos] 4:25pm-4:50pm Joel Alvin Stein Peter Doubilet's theory of symmetric functions [photos] 5:00pm-5:25pm Zhi-Wei Sun Zero-sum problems and their connections to covers of [photos] 5:25pm-5:50pm Vladimir Cepulic A lines-points relation formula for symmetric block design [photos] 8:00pm-9:30pm   Chinese shadow show [photos]

Morning, August 3, 2004. Chair: Beifang Chen

9:00am-9:45am Zhexian Wan Symplectic Graphs and Their Automorphisms [photos] 10:00am-10:45am Michael S. Waterman A word count statistic in computational biology [photos] 11:00am-11:45am Bailin Hao Discrete Mathematics in Bioinformatics [photos]

Afternoon, August 3, 2004. Chair: Alain Lascoux

2:00pm-2:45pm Stephen Milne A new look at sums of squares, Jacobi elliptic functions, and Ramanujan's tau function [photos] 2:55pm-3:40pm Tadeusz Lulek Magnetic interpretation of the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth algorithm [photos] 4:00pm-4:25pm Barbara Lulek Kinematics of the Bethe Ansatz, rarefied Brillouin zones, and the duality of Weyl [photos] 4:25pm-4:50pm Beifang Chen Chromatic and flow polynomials of graphs [photos] 5:00pm-5:25pm Michael Schlosser Inversion of the Pieri formula for Macdonald polynomials [photos] 5:25pm-5:50pm Yaotsu Chang The Weight Distributions of some binary quadratic residue codes [photos] 7:00pm-   Banquet [photos]

Morning, August 4, 2004. Chair: Ronald C. King

9:00am-9:45am Anatol N. Kirillov Combinatorics around the Painleve VI [photos] 9:55am-10:40am Helmut Prodinger Combinatorics and the analysis of algorithms [photos] 11:00am-11:25am William Y. C. Chen A Telescoping Algorithm for Double Summations [photos] 11:25am-11:50am Toufik Mansour Counting occurrences of $231$ in an involution [photos]

Afternoon, August 4, 2004. Chair: George E. Andrews

2:00pm-2:45pm Richard P. Stanley The Bruhat order of the symmetric group [photos] 2:55pm-3:40pm Peter Paule A computerized proof of stembridge's TSPP theorem [photos] 4:00pm-4:45pm Richard A. Askey Some solutions of first order linear q-difference equations [photos] 7:30pm-9:30pm   Closing Ceremony [photos]