Fall Central Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 28, 2012 00:28:15

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Saturday October 20, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Additive and Combinatorial Number Theory, I
Room 136, College of Arts and Sciences
Organizers:
Tsz Ho Chan, University of Memphis
Kevin O'Bryant, City University of New York
Gang Yu, Kent State University yu@math.kent.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  From the Shanks acceleration method to partitions.
  George E Andrews*, Pennsylavnia State University
  (1084-05-51)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Buffon's needle estimates and vanishing sums of roots of unity.
  Izabella Laba*, UBC
  (1084-11-366)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On a conjecture of Solymosi.
  Ernie Croot*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Albert Bush, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Chris Pryby, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Gagik Amirkhanyan, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1084-11-82)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Commuting graphs of finite groups.
  Peter V Hegarty*, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
  Dmitry Zhelezov, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
  (1084-20-141)

Saturday October 20, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Additive and Combinatorial Number Theory, II
Room 136, College of Arts and Sciences
Organizers:
Tsz Ho Chan, University of Memphis
Kevin O'Bryant, City University of New York
Gang Yu, Kent State University yu@math.kent.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Balanced subgroups of the multiplicative group.
  Carl Pomerance*, Mathematics Department, Dartmouth College
  Douglas Ulmer, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1084-11-85)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Improvements and Extensions of Two Theorems of Sarkozy.
  Neil Lyall*, University of Georgia
  Alex Rice, Bucknell University
  (1084-11-240)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Diophantine inequalities with prime unknowns.
  Angel Kumchev*, Towson University
  (1084-11-62)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Prime Number Races.
  Youness Lamzouri*, York University
  (1084-11-248)

Sunday October 21, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Additive and Combinatorial Number Theory, III
Room 136, College of Arts and Sciences
Organizers:
Tsz Ho Chan, University of Memphis
Kevin O'Bryant, City University of New York
Gang Yu, Kent State University yu@math.kent.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Problems and results in additive number theory.
  Melvyn B. Nathanson*, Lehman College (CUNY), Bronx, NY
  (1084-11-270)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Mind the Gap: Distribution of Gaps in Generalized Zeckendorf Decompositions.
  Steven J Miller*, Williams College
  Amanda Bower, University of Michigan -- Dearborn
  Rachel Insoft, Wellesley College
  Shiyu Li, UC Berkeley
  Philip Tosteson, Williams College
  (1084-11-108)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The degrees of the polynomial divisors of $x^n-1$.
  Paul Pollack*, University of Georgia
  Lola Thompson, University of Georgia
  (1084-11-228)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Algebraic methods in sum-product phenomena.
  Chun-Yen Shen*, Visiting assistant professor/Michigan State University
  (1084-12-129)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A numerically explicit Burgess inequality and an application to quadratic non-residues.
  Enrique Treviño*, Swarthmore College
  (1084-11-167)

Sunday October 21, 2012, 1:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Additive and Combinatorial Number Theory, IV
Room 136, College of Arts and Sciences
Organizers:
Tsz Ho Chan, University of Memphis
Kevin O'Bryant, City University of New York
Gang Yu, Kent State University yu@math.kent.edu
- 1:30 p.m.
  On polynomial configurations in the primes.
  Thai Hoang Le*, University of Texas at Austin
  Julia Wolf, Ecole Polytechnique
  (1084-11-312)
- 2:00 p.m.
  An interesting family of polynomials in $\mathbb{Z}_2[x]$.
  Katherine Alexander Anders*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1084-11-19)
- 2:30 p.m.
  A ternary additive problem.
  John Hoffman*, Kent State University
  Gang Yu, Kent State University
  (1084-11-138)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Most Sets are Balanced in many Finite Groups.
  Kevin Vissuet*, UC San Diego
  Steven J Miller, Williams College
  (1084-11-107)
- 3:30 p.m.
  New bounds for $B_k^*$-sets.
  Craig M. Timmons*, University of California San Diego
  (1084-05-16)