Speaker: Bruce Sagan, Michigan State University (and NSF)
Title: Congruences for Combinatorial Sequences (joint work with Emeric Deutsch)
Abstract: We derive congruences for various sequences involving binomial coefficients. In particular, we are able to prove some conjectures of Benoit Cloitre. Surprisingly, the Thue-Morse sequence (from the theory of combinatorics on words) makes an appearance.
Time: Friday, April 18, 2008, 3:30-4:20 p.m.Place: Science and Technology Building I, Room 242
Refreshments will be served before the talk at 3:00 p.m. in Room 222.
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