8th International Conference on Lattice Path Combinatorics & Applications

The 8 ^th International Conference on Lattice Path Combinatorics and Applications  (DOCX) will take place from Monday, August 17, 2015 to Thursday, August 20, 2015 on the campus of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) located in the city of Pomona, California, USA.  The Conference will be dedicated to Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930 - 2013) and Philippe Flajolet (1948 - 2011). We also plan to honor George Andrews and Lajos Takács . Please see the history of the International Conference on Lattice Path Combinatorics and Applications (PDF) presented by Sri Gopal Mohanty. 

George Andrews has agreed to give a talk entitled Congruences for the Fishburn numbers on joint work with James Sellers. Cyril Banderier will give a talk on "The analytic combinatorics point of view of Philippe Flajolet on lattice paths."

See the schedule for the days and times of the speakers and conference events.

The Conference registration payment (excluding the $30 undergraduate student per diem registration charge) will cover the cost of dinners on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and lunches on Monday-Thursday. If you have not already registered, you are encouraged to register for the Conference online as soon as possible.  All of these meals will take place at Kellogg West except for the Wednesday night banquet. The Wednesday banquet is scheduled to take place from 7-10 pm at the Kellogg House on campus. Dinners come with a biographical presentation on one or two of our Conference honorees or mathematical entertainment. Subject to availability, a limited number of banquet or dinner tickets will be available for sale on campus to unregistered guests.

If you are arriving to Pomona by plane on August 16, please let us know your airport and estimated time of arrival by emailing this information to ackrinik@cpp.edu. We are considering trying to set up shuttle arrangements for Conference participants landing at LAX on August 16. If you are flying into Ontario International Airport, there is a Kellogg West Hotel shuttle to transport you free to your hotel. However, to use the Kellogg West shuttle, you must be staying at Kellogg West and you need to make a shuttle appointment with Kellogg West 48 hours prior to your shuttle usage. 

Presenters

• The Analytic Combinatorics Point of View of Philippe Flajolet on Lattice Paths, Cyril Banderier
• Analyzing Extreme Values and Loss Parameters of Queuing Models in a Finite Time Interval (PDF), Gerardo Rubino
• Asymptotic Behaviour of the q-Poisson Distributions Heine and Euler by Pointwise Convergence  (PDF), Andreas Kyriakoussis and Malvina Vamvakari
• Asymptotic Estimates for the Level Distribution of Stable Queues with Time-Varying Periodic Transition Rates  (PDF) , Barbara Margolius
• Combinatorial Proofs of Fibonomial Identities  (PDF), Arthur Benjamin and Elizabeth Reiland
• The Combinatorics Governing the Periodicity of p(n, d) Modulo M (PDF), Felix Breuer, Dennis Eichhorn*, and Brandt Kronholm
• The Concept of Pseudo-Dual of a System of Differential Equations (PDF),  Alan Krinik and Gerardo Rubino*
• Congruences for the Fishburn Numbers  (PDF) , George Andrews and James Sellers  
• Counting Colored Paths Using Partial Bell Polynomials  (PDF), Michael Weiner
• Counting Lattice Paths having Step Sizes of {-2, -1, 1, 2} that travel from j to k, where j, k are Natural Numbers and the Path Never Touches nor Goes Below the x-axis  (PDF), Alan Krinik, Dmitry Kruchinin, Vladimir Kruchinin and David Nguyen 
• The Dehn-Somerville Relations and the Catalan Matroid (PDF), Anastasia Chavez and Nicole Yamzon
• Distributed Patterns in Paths  (PDF) , Ran Pan and Jeffrey Remmel
• An Elliptic Analogue of the Rook Numbers  (PDF) , Michael Schlosser and Meesue Yoo
• A Family of Bell Transformations (PDF), Juan B. Gil
• Fixed Points of Pattern-Avoiding Permutations  (PDF),  Christopher Hoffman, Douglas Rizzolo and Erik Slivken
• Generalised Ballot Theorem in a Combinatorial Analysis of M/M ^[m]/1 Queue (PDF), Gopalan Nair
• A Generalized Bounded Graph Coloring Problem  (PDF),  Mehdi Toloo and Esmail Keshavarz
• On George Andrews and Shreeram Abhyankar  (PDF), Krishnaswami Alladi
• Göllnitz's  (Big) Partition Theorem and a New Companion  (PDF) , Krishnaswami Alladi
• The Goulden-Jackson Cluster Method for Monoid Networks and an Application to Lattice Path Enumeration (PDF), Yan Zhuang
• A Half-Normal Limit Distribution Scheme  (PDF), Michael Wallner
• Hilbert Polynomial of Ladder Determinantal Ideals: A Perspective (PDF), Devadatta Kulkami
• Lattice Paths and Tilings Using Stern Polynomials  (PDF) , Karl Dilcher and Larry Ericksen
• Laws Relating Runs, Long Runs, and Steps in Gambler's Ruin, with Persistence in Two Strata  (PDF) , Gregory J. Morrow
• Lozenge Tilings of Halved Hexagons with Defects (PDF), Ranjan Rohatgi
• Lozenge Tilings of a Hexagon with Three Holes  (PDF) , Tri Lai
• Mathemagics (PDF), Arthur Benjamin
• The Mixing of Discrete Unimodality: Characterizations and Closure Properties  (PDF), M.I. A. Ageel
• A New Family of Lattice Paths Enumerating Cores  (PDF), Tewodros Amdeberhan and Emily Leven
• Number of Points of Schubert Varieties over Finite Fields  (PDF), Sudhir Ghorpade
• Orthogonal Polynomials and Motzkin Paths with Peak and Flat Restrictions  (PDF), Jordan Tirrell  
• On a Problem by Don Knuth: Lattice paths of Slope 2/5  (PDF), Cyril Banderier
• Professor Lajos Takács: Life and Contribution to Combinatorics  (PDF),  Aliakbar Haghighi and Sri Gopal Mohanty
• On Restricted Words and Colored Compositions (PDF), Daniel Birmajer
• Remembering Professor Joti Lal Jain, Sri Gopal Mohanty
• The Restart Queue Model  (PDF), Alan Krinik and Satori Schweitz
• Shreeram Abhyankar and His Work on Enumerative Combinatorics  (PDF) , Sudhir Ghorpade and Devadatta Kulkarni
• Some Skolem Square Difference Mean Graphs, K. Indirani  (PDF), R. Thilagavathi and J. Shiama
• Tutorial on Non-Intersecting Lattice Paths, Classical Group Characters and Multivariate (Basic) Hypergeometric Series  (PDF), Christian Krattenthaler
• Two Recent Applications of Lattice Path Theory to Other Areas of Combinatorics  (PDF), Antonio Blanca, Samuel Connolly, Zachary Gabor and Anant Godbole
• Walks in the Quarter-Plane with Multiple Steps (PDF), Manuel Kauers and Rika Yatchak
• The World of Jagdish Narayan Srivastava (PDF), Subir Ghosh

Topics

Conference topics to be covered (but not limited to):

Scientific Committee

• G. Andrews (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• N. Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Canada)
• C.  Banderier (CNRS/Univ. Paris-Nord, France)
• A. Benjamin (Harvey Mudd College, USA)
• Ch. A. Charalambides (University of Athens, Greece)
• A. Godbole (East Tennessee State University, USA)
• C. Krattenthaler (Wien University, Austria)
• A. Krinik (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA)
• R. Pinzani (University of Florence, Italy)
• S. Rinaldi (University of Siena, Italy)
• G. Schaeffer (CNRS, France)
• R. Swift (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA)
• D. Zeilberger (Rutgers University, USA)

Coordinator: Sri Gopal Mohanty, McMaster Unversity, Canada

Organizing Committee

• B. Chen (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA)
• C. Griffith (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA)
• A. Krinik (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA)
• Y. Phun (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA)
• C. Schwaller (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA)
• R. Swift (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA)
• R. Wilson (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA)

Contact: latticepathcomb@cpp.edu

Previous Conferences

• 7th International Conference on Lattice Path Combinatorics and Applications (University of Siena, Italy, July 4-7, 2010)
• 6th International Conference on Lattice Path Combinatorics and Applications (Eastern Tennessee State University, USA, July 12-14, 2007)
• 5th International Conference on Lattice Path Combinatorics and Discrete Distributions (Athens, Greece, June 5-7, 2002)
• 4th International Conference on Lattice Paths Combinatorics and Applications (University of Vienna, Austria, July 8-10, 1998)