Paul Thomas Young


Welcome to my home page. I am a Professor on the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at the College of Charleston . If you don't believe me, just check my vita .
 

Address

Department of Mathematics
College of Charleston
66 George Street
Charleston, SC 29424-0001 USA      

phone: (843)953-5922
fax: (843)953-1410

paul@math.cofc.edu

 


Happenings

                                             WCNT 2016

                        West Coast Number Theory Conference                  
                                                                                                                       
                                             Lighthouse Lodge     

                                             Pacific Grove, CA                               
                                         December 16-20, 2016

                                          Conference Webpage     
                                                      
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                             Foreign Expert Program             

   "Polylogarithmic zeta functions and their p-adic analogues"   
                                                                                                                       
                                            Wuhan University      

                                   Wuhan, Hubei Province, China                    
                                      October - November  2016   

                                          Wuhan Math     
                                                      
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                  University of the Witwatersrand

  "Polylogarithmic zeta functions and their p-adic analogues"
                                   Johannesburg, South Africa

                                        September 15, 2016

                                             Wits Maths     
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                                              FIB XVII

                     Seventeenth International Conference on
                   Fibonacci Numbers and Their Applications                  

                                           Universite de Caen  

                                       Caen, Normandie, France
                                           June 27-July 2, 2016

                                          Conference Webpage     
                                                      
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"On shifted Mascheroni series and hyperharmonic numbers", Journal of Number Theory video abstract:

                                                                            

                                            DART 2016                             

                    Diophantine Analysis and Related Topics                     
                                                                                                                       
                                            Wuhan University      

                                   Wuhan, Hubei Province, China                    
                                            March 10-13, 2016   

                                          Conference Webpage     
                                                      
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                                               JA 2015

                                29 th Journees Arithmetiques                              
                                                                                                                       
                                         University of Debrecen      

                                           Debrecen, Hungary                    
                                             July 6-10, 2015   

                                          Conference Webpage     
                                                      
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"The p-adic Arakawa-Kaneko zeta functions and p-adic Lerch transcendent", Journal of Number Theory video abstract:

                                                                            

                                          SERMON 2015

                  SouthEastern Regional Meeting On Numbers               
                                                                                                                       
                                           Winthrop University      

                                                Rock Hill, SC                    
                                            March 28-29, 2015   

                                          Conference Webpage     
                                                      
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                                             WCNT 2014

                        West Coast Number Theory Conference                  
                                                                                                                       
                                             Lighthouse Lodge     

                                             Pacific Grove, CA                               
                                         December 16-20, 2014

                                          Conference Webpage     
                                                      
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                                                FIB XVI

                        Sixteenth International Conference on
                   Fibonacci Numbers and Their Applications                  

                                  Rochester Institute of Technology  

                                          Rochester, New York
                                             July 20-26, 2014

                                          Conference Webpage     
                                                      
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"Symmetries of Bernoulli polynomial series and Arakawa-Kaneko zeta functions", Journal of Number Theory video abstract:

                                                                            

"Rational series for multiple zeta and log gamma functions", Journal of Number Theory video abstract:

                                                                            

                                          SERMON 2013

                  SouthEastern Regional Meeting On Numbers
                                                                                                                       
                                           High Point University 

                                              High Point, NC                    
                                             April 13-14, 2013

                                          Conference Webpage     
                                                      
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                                             WCNT 2012

                        West Coast Number Theory Conference
                                                                                                                       
                                      Asilomar Conference Center  

                                             Pacific Grove, CA                    
                                         December 16-20, 2012

                                          Conference Webpage     
                                                      
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                                                FIB XV

                        Fifteenth International Conference on
                   Fibonacci Numbers and Their Applications                  

                                      Eszterházy Károly Főiskola  

                                                Eger, Hungary
                                              June 25-30, 2012

                                          Conference Webpage     
                                                      
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                            Number Theory Seminar                            

                                    Ostravská Univerzita 
                                     Ostrava, Czech Republic                  

                           "Generalizations of Bernoulli Numbers       
                           in Number Theory and Combinatorics"

                                            March 7, 2012

                                             Ostrava Math                  
                                                       

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                   University of the Witwatersrand
                                                      and
                             John Knopfmacher Centre
                for Applicable Analysis and Number Theory

       "Arithmetic and Combinatorics of Bernoulli Numbers"       

                                   Johannesburg, South Africa

                                            May 12, 2011

                                             Wits Maths     
                                     
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                                              FIB XIV

                      Fourteenth International Conference on

                   Fibonacci Numbers and Their Applications       

                         Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

                                              July 5-9, 2010

                                        Conference Webpage     
                                                       

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                                Coloquio y Seminario

                    Instituto de Matemáticas Unidad Morelia      

                         Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México            

                           "Generalizations of Bernoulli Numbers"

                                           November 4, 2009

                                         Coloquio Webpage                  
                                                       

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                                     INTEGERS 2009

                              INTEGERS Conference 2009                                   

  In Celebration of the 65th Birthdays of Mel Nathanson and Carl Pomerance          

                                    University of West Georgia

                                          October 14-17, 2009

                                         Conference Webpage                  
                                                       

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                                              PANTS 7

                  Palmetto Number Theory Seminar, Meeting 7                

                                was held at the College of Charleston

                                           October 11-12, 2008

                       Plenary Speakers:  Florian Luca, Ram Murty

                                          Conference Webpage                  
                                                       

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                                            FIB XIII

                     Thirteenth International Conference on                              

              Fibonacci Numbers and Their Applications     

                                   University of Patras, Greece

                                             July 7-11, 2008

                                         Conference Webpage                  
                                                       

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                                           PANTS 3

             Palmetto Number Theory Seminar, Meeting 3                 

                           was held at the College of Charleston

                                       September 8-9, 2007

              Plenary Speakers:  Alan Adolphson, Jonathan Sands

                                      Conference Webpage                  
                                                       

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          Séminaire de Théorie des Nombres            

                Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux    


                                           March 9, 2007

                   "Bernoulli Polynomials and Sums of Powers"

                                      Séminaire Webpage                  
                                                       

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                                              SERMON 2004

    The Seventeenth SouthEastern Regional Meeting On Numbers

                                  was held at the College of Charleston

                                                April 16-18, 2004

                           Keynote Speaker:  Harold M. Stark, UCSD

                                             Conference Webpage                  
                                                       

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          Meeting on Geometric Analysis and Singular Spaces

             Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach               

                                                   June 2-8, 2002
 
 

                                          Oberwolfach Web Site

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                The Dwork Trimester in Italy 

                    "Remembering Bernie"

        A cycle of conferences on Dwork theory, in memory of Bernard M. Dwork

                                              May-July 2001
 
 

                                             AMS Obituary
 

                                   Dwork Conference Web Site



Preprints

Here you can access preprints of some of my recent papers in pdf form.  My earlier papers may also be found here .

                                                                    
 
  •   "On the behavior of some two-variable p-adic L-functions" , Journal of Number Theory 98.1 (2003), 67-88.

  •   "On lacunary recurrences" , The Fibonacci Quarterly 41.1 (2003), 41-47. 

  •   "Congruences for degenerate number sequences" , Discrete Mathematics 270 (2003), 279-289. 

  •   "Gauss sums and multinomial coefficients" , Journal of Number Theory 106.1 (2004), 13-25. 

  •   "Degenerate and n-adic versions of Kummer's congruences for values of Bernoulli polynomials" , Discrete Mathematics 285 (2004), 289-296. 

  •   "p-adic interpolation of the Fibonacci sequence via hypergeometric functions" (with Prerna Bihani and Wendy Sheppard), The Fibonacci Quarterly 43.3 (2005), 213-226.  

  •   "Regular and strongly regular planar graphs" (with Nirmala Limaye, Dinesh Sarvate, and Pantelimon Stănică), Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing 54 (2005), 111-127.  

  •   "On Lucas-Bernoulli numbers" , The Fibonacci Quarterly 44.4 (2006), 347-357.  

  •   "Degenerate Bernoulli polynomials, generalized factorial sums, and their applications" , Journal of Number Theory 128.4 (2008), 738-758.  

  •   "A 2-adic formula for Bernoulli numbers of the second kind and for the Nörlund numbers" , Journal of Number Theory 128.11 (2008), 2951-2962.  

  •   "On higher order Lucas-Bernoulli numbers"  (with Kyle Keepers), The Fibonacci Quarterly 46/47 (2008/2009), 26-31.  

  •   "A p-adic formula for the Nörlund numbers and for Bernoulli numbers of the second kind" , Congressus Numerantium 201 (2010), 77-87.

  •   "Coincidences of Catalan and q-Catalan numbers" (with Florian Luca), INTEGERS 11.4 (2011), 495-503. 

  •   "Bernoulli numbers and generalized factorial sums", INTEGERS 11.4 (2011), 553-561.  

  •   "On p-adic multiple zeta and log gamma functions" (with Brett Tangedal), Journal of Number Theory 131.7 (2011), 1240-1257. 

  •   "On the binary expansion of the odd Catalan numbers" (with Florian Luca), Aportaciones Matemáticas Investigación 20 (2011), 185-190.  

  •   "Some p-adic congruences for pq-Catalan numbers" (with Florian Luca), Aportaciones Matemáticas Investigación 20 (2011), 191-197.  

  •   "On the log-concavity of the degenerate Bernoulli numbers" (with Florian Luca), International Journal of Number Theory 8.3 (2012), 789-800.  

  •   "On the number of divisors of n! and of the Fibonacci numbers" (with Florian Luca), Glasnik Matematički 47 (2012), 285-293.   

  •   "Explicit computation of Gross-Stark units over real quadratic fields" (with Brett Tangedal), Journal of Number Theory 131.3 (2013), 1045-1061.  

  •   "Rational series for multiple zeta and log gamma functions" , Journal of Number Theory 131.12 (2013), 3995-4009. 

  • "Symmetries of Bernoulli polynomial series and Arakawa-Kaneko zeta functions" , Journal of Number Theory 143 (2014), 142-161. 



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