We propose a conference, titled From A=B to Z=60, in honor of Doron Zeilberger's 60th birthday to be hosted by the mathematics department of Rutgers University and DIMACS (Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science). Both the DIMACS center and the mathematics department of Rutgers University are located in Piscataway, New Jersey. The goal of this conference, in addition to honoring and celebrating the work of Zeilberger, is to serve as a gathering place for those working in classical combinatorics, experimental mathematics, and other areas of combinatorics not based on graph theory. We surely expect that significant collaborative work will result from the proposed conference and that students will make some valuable contributions in addition to valuable contacts.
This conference took place over two full days (May 27-28, 2010) at The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutger University in Piscataway, New Jersey. Approximately 150 mathematicians (mostly combinatorialists) attended the 10 plenary talks and 18 invited talks that were given over these two days. The talks were given both by well-established researchers (e.g., George Andrews, George Askey, David Bressoud, Dominique Foata, Aviezri Fraenkel, Victor Moll, Herb Wilf) and young researchers in classical combinatorics, number theory, and experimental mathematics. Those in attendance had diverse backgrounds with respect to the mathematics they brought to the conference, age, gender, and race. A list of speakers, along with titles and abstracts of the talks, is available at www.math.rutgers.edu/events/Z60. There are also links to videos of the talks (hosted on youtube) available at the aforementioned web address. Results from this conference, as well as results related to the mathematics central to the conference, will appear in a special issue of The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. The direct link to this issue is: www.combinatorics.org/Volume_18/v18i2toc.html. The organizers would like to thank the NSF for the generous support, without which many of those in attendance, especially any young researchers, would not have been able to attend.
