AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 4, 2009 00:27:23

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Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory in the Spirit of Erdos, I
Room 143, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Kevin Ford, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ford@math.uiuc.edu
A. J. Hildebrand, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hildebr@math.uiuc.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  A 1935 Erdős paper on prime numbers and Euler's function.
  Carl Pomerance*, Dartmouth College
  (1047-11-157)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Phase transitions in infinitely generated groups, and a problem in additive number theory.
  Melvyn B. Nathanson*, CUNY (Lehman College and the Graduate Center)
  (1047-11-12)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Dense Egyptian fractions.
  Greg Martin*, University of British Columbia
  (1047-11-11)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On Carmichael and Giuga numbers.
  William D Banks*, University of Missouri
  (1047-11-356)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Some problems concerning the fraction $\sigma(n)/n$.
  Paul Pollack*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1047-11-454)

Saturday March 28, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory in the Spirit of Erdos, II
Room 143, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Kevin Ford, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ford@math.uiuc.edu
A. J. Hildebrand, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hildebr@math.uiuc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Hardy-Littlewood Prime Tuple Conjecture and Gaps Between Consecutive Primes.
  Dan Goldston*, San Jose State University
  (1047-11-430)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Some Conjectures of Erdős on Consecutive Integers.
  D. A. Goldston, San Jose State University
  S. W. Graham*, Central Michigan University
  J. Pintz, Renyi Mathematical Institute of the Hungary Academy of Sciences
  C. Y. Yıldırım, Bogazici University
  (1047-11-42)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Lattice Points Close to a Smooth Curve and Applications.
  Ognian Trifonov*, University of South Carolina
  (1047-11-367)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Sums and Products in C[x].
  Ernie Croot*, Georgia Tech
  (1047-11-350)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Wieferich pairs and Barker sequences.
  Michael J. Mossinghoff*, University of South Carolina and Davidson College
  (1047-11-285)

Saturday March 28, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory in the Spirit of Erdos, III
Room 143, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Kevin Ford, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ford@math.uiuc.edu
A. J. Hildebrand, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hildebr@math.uiuc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Open Problems on Covering Systems.
  Michael Filaseta*, University of South Carolina
  (1047-11-286)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Covering systems old and new.
  Pace P. Nielsen*, The University of Iowa
  (1047-11-359)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On sequences of integers no one of which divides the product of three others.
  Tsz Ho Chan*, University of Memphis
  Ervin Gyory, Renyi Institute
  Andras Sarkozy, Eotvos Lorand University
  (1047-11-46)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Sets with Integral Distance in Finite Fields.
  Alex Iosevich, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
  Igor Shparlinski, Dept. Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  Maosheng Xiong*, Pennsylvania State University
  (1047-11-257)

Sunday March 29, 2009, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory in the Spirit of Erdos, IV
Room 143, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Kevin Ford, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ford@math.uiuc.edu
A. J. Hildebrand, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hildebr@math.uiuc.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Dense sets of integers without long arithmetic progressions.
  Kevin O'Bryant*, CUNY - Staten Island
  (1047-11-477)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Generalized multiplication tables.
  Dimitris Koukoulopoulos*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1047-11-455)

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