AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

2009 Spring Central Sectional Meeting
Urbana, IL, March 27-29, 2009 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1047

• 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)