Monthly Archives: February 2011

The lecturer

This may not be the final form, but I will post it now so as not to forget.

To the tune of “Killing me softly”

I heard he gave a good talk
I heard he had some style
And so I went to see him
To listen for a while

And there he was this (youngish) man
No stranger to my eyes

Numbing my brain with his figures
Straining my eyes with his slides
Driving me crazy with errors
Killing me slowly, with his talk, …

I couldn’t reach the aisle
Surrounded by the crowd
Seemed like he’d brought his paper
And read each word out loud

I prayed that he would finish
But he just kept right on

[chorus]

I tried to get attention
I tried an icy stare
But he just looked right through me
As if I wasn’t there

And he just kept on talking
Barely audibly

[chorus]

Asymptotics of coefficients of multivariate generating functions: improvements for multiple points

This has been uploaded to arXiv and submitted to Online Journal of Combinatorics. Interestingly, it was rejected by Electronic Journal of Combinatorics without refereeing, as being out of scope. It improves on previous work mainly by giving explicit formulae. The main work associated with this paper is the SAGE implementation by Alex Raichev. Computation of higher order asymptotic expansions by hand is essentially impossible, hence the paucity of numerical or explicit resultsĀ  in published papers.

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