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St. Stephan's
Cathedral in the City of Vienna |
4th
International Conference on Third Announcement July 8-10,
1998 This
conference is dedicated to the memory of |
Note: registration is still possible! Please see the first announcement and the second announcement of the conference for further information.
| 08:00 - 08:45 | Registration |
| 08:45 - 09:15 | Welcome and Inauguration |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Coffee Break |
Enumeration - I Session
Chair: Sri Gopal Mohanty (McMaster University, Canada)
| 10:00 - 10:25 | Planar walks with recursive initial conditions Heinrich Niederhausen (Florida Atlantic University, USA) |
| 10:35 - 11:00 | New results on the enumeration of rhombus tilings and nonintersecting lattice paths Christian Krattenthaler (Universität Wien, Austria) |
| 11:10 - 11:35 | A bijective perimeter enumeration of directed convex polyominoes Svjetlan Feretic (University of Zagreb, Croatia) | 11:45 - 12:10 |
Moments of level numbers of leaves in binary trees
Alois Panholzer* and Helmut Prodinger (Technische Universität Wien, Austria) |
| 12:10 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
Random Walks - I Session
Chair: Helmut Prodinger (Technische Universität Wien, Austria)
| 14:00 - 14:25 | Some results for the two-dimensional random walk Endre Csaki (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) |
| 14:35 - 15:00 | Lattice paths and the one-night stand model Anthony J. Guttmann* and Markus Vöge (University of Melbourne, Australia) |
| 15:10 - 15:35 | On some joint distributions in fluctuations of sums of random variables Jagdish Saran (University of Delhi, India) |
| 15:35 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
Enumeration - II Session
Chair: Robert A. Sulanke (Boise State University, USA)
| 16:00 - 16:25 | The rook numbers of Ferrers boards and the related restricted permutation numbers Charalambos A. Charalambides (University of Athens, Greece) |
| 16:35 - 17:00 | Ballot sequences in data compression and creating order Ulrich Tamm (Universität Bielefeld, Germany) |
| 19:30 - ?? | Heurigenabend in Nussdorf |
Probability Theory - Session
Chair: Kanwar Sen (University of Delhi, India)
| 09:00 - 09:25 | On the number of appearances of a word in a sequence of i.i.d trials Ourania Chrysaphinou*, Stavros Papastavridis and Eutichia Vaggelatou (University of Athens, Greece) |
| 09:35 - 10:00 | The probability of reaching head to tail ratios for balanced and unbalanced coins Tamas Lengyel (Occidental College Los Angeles, USA) |
| 10:10 - 10:35 | The exact distribution of the distance between two random points in a cube and approximations by means of lattices Serge B. Provost (University of Western Ontario, Canada) |
| 10:35 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
Discrete Distributions - Session
Chair: Charalambos A. Charalambides (University of Athens, Greece)
| 11:00 - 11:25 | The generalized negative multinomial distribution of i-th order and its properties Kutribas Dutta (Sambalpur University, India) |
| 11:35 - 12:00 |
On a class of multivariate discrete distributions
induced by an urn scheme and linear diophantine equations
related to it
Mikhail S. Nikulin (Universite Bordeaux 2, France) and Vassily G. Voinov* (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, Kazakhstan) |
12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
q-Calculus and Orthogonal Polynomials - Session
Chair: Endre Csaki (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
| 14:00 - 14:25 |
Aspects of Bailey-Daum and other q-series
distributions
Adrienne W. (Freda) Kemp* and C. David Kemp (University of St. Andrews, Scotland) |
| 14:35 - 15:00 | A joint absorption-Mahonian process and some related q-identities Don Rawlings (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA) |
| 15:10 - 15:35 |
Central and local limit theorems for the
coefficients of the associated Laguerre polynomials
A. Kyriakoussis* and M.G. Vamvakari (University of Athens, Greece) |
15:35 - 16:00 | Coffee Break and Poster Session (see below) |
Random Walks II - Session
Chair: Anthony J. Guttmann (University of Melbourne, Australia)
| 16:00 - 16:25 |
Extensions of gambler's ruin with even odds. Multinomial and other models
Milton Sobel* (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) and Krzysztof Frankowski (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA) |
| 16:35 - 17:00 |
On the height of simple random walks
Walter Katzenbeisser and Wolfgang Panny* (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria) |
| 20:00 - ?? | Cocktail-Party at Rathauskeller, City Hall of Vienna |
Enumeration III - Session
Chair: Heinrich Niederhausen (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
| 09:00 - 09:25 |
A topography of Catalonia via Narayana statistics
Robert A. Sulanke (Boise State University, Boise, USA) |
| 09:35 - 10:00 | Occupancy urn models in analysis of algorithms Daniele Gardy (Lab. PRiSM, University of Versailles, St-Quentin, France) |
| 10:10 - 10:35 |
Lagrange statistics on Dyke paths
Donatella Merlini, Renzo Sprugnoli* and M. Cecilia Verri (Universita Degli Studi Di Firenze, Italy) |
| 10:35 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
Enumeration IV - Session
Chair: Christian Krattenthaler (Universität Wien, Austria))
| 11:00 - 11:25 | The equivalence between enumerating cyclically symmetric, self-complementary and totally symmetric, self-complementary plane partitions Mihai Ciucu (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA) |
| 11:35 - 12:00 |
q-difference equations and representation of
symmetric group
Thomas Ernst (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Sergei Silvestrov* (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) |
12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
Queueing Theory I - Session
Chair: Vassily Voinov (Almaty, Kazakhstan))
| 14:00 - 14:25 | The distribution of the number of customers served during a busy period of GI/M/1/N queues - a lattice path approach Manju Agarwal (University of Delhi, India) |
| 14:35 - 15:00 |
Transient probabilities of M/M/1 preemptive
priority queues
Alan Krinik, Dan Marcus and Ray Shiflett* (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break |
Queueing Theory II - Session
Chair: Ulrich Tamm (Universität Bielefeld, Germany))
| 15:30 - 15:55 |
Lattice path approach to transient analysis of
M/G/1/W non-markovian queues using Cox distributions
Kanwar Sen (University of Delhi, India) |
| 16:10 - 16:35 | Transient solution of markovian models - a probabilistic approach Joti L. Jain (University of Delhi, India) |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Concluding Remarks |
Poster - Session
The following papers will be presented as posters:
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Sum of powers from uniform distribution moments Larry Ericksen (Cornell University, USA) |
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Estimation of M/G/c/c queues M.L. Huang* (Brock University, Ontario, Canada) and P.H. Brill (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada) |
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The area under a random increasing lattice polygon Kevin Wald (University of Chicago, USA) and Anant Godbole* (Michigan Tech University, USA) |
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