Institute for Advanced StudySchool of MathematicsPrinceton, NJ 08540
Agenda
Mini conference on Arithmetic Combinatorics
December 10-12, 2007
Organizers:
Jean Bourgain, Institute for Advanced Study Peter Sarnak, Institute for Advanced Study Van Vu, Institute for Advanced Study
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All talks will be held in the Simonyi Hall Seminar Room
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Monday, December 10, 2007
11:00 am - 11:50 Avi Wigderson (IAS), Extractors, Ramsey Graphs and Arithmetic Combinatorics
12:00 pm - 12:30 Kevin Costello (IAS), Quadratic Littlewood-Offord and rank of random symetric matrices
12:30 pm - 2:00 LUNCH - IAS Dining Hall
2:00 pm - 2:50 Bryna Kra (Northwestern), Nilsequences in ergodic theory and additive combinatorics
3:00 pm - 3:30 H. Nguyen (Rutgers), On Erdos square sum free problem
3:30 pm - 4:00 TEA - IAS Fuld Hall Common Room
4:00 pm - 4:50 Izabella Laba (UBC), Arithmetic progressions in Salem sets
Tuesday, December 11, 200711:00 am - 11:50 Endre Szemeredi (Rutgers/IAS), When does A+A become a square? 12:00 pm - 12:30 Benjamin Sudakov (UCLA/IAS), Discrete Kakeya-type problems and small bases 12:30 pm - 2:00 LUNCH - IAS Dining Hall 2:00 pm - 2:50 Ben Green (Cambridge/IAS), Gowers norms in characteristic two 3:00 pm - 3:30 A. Kontorovich (Brown), The hyperbolic lattice point count in infinite volume with applications to sieves 3:30 pm - 4:00 TEA - IAS Fuld Hall Common Room 4:00 pm - 4:30 Jozsef Solymosi(UBC/IAS), Variants of the sum-product problem 4:30 pm - 5:00 Emmanuel Breuillard (IAS), Tits alternative and arithmetic heights
Wednesday, December 12, 200711:00 am - 11:50 Yuri Bilu (Bordeaux), Transcendence of automatic numbers (after Adamczewski, Bugeaud) 12:00 pm - 12:30 Sergei Konyagin (IAS), Waring problem with the Ramanujan $\tau$-function 12:30 pm - 2:00 LUNCH - IAS Dining Hall 2:00 pm - 2:50 Andrew Granville (Montreal/IAS), Pretentiousness in analytic number theory 3:00 pm - 3:30 Javier Cilleruelo (Madrid), Sidon sets and the distribution of powers in F_p 3:30 pm - 4:00 TEA - Fuld Hall Common Room 4:00 pm - 4:50 Peter Sarnak (IAS), An affine sieve
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