Workshop: New horizons in additive combinatorics

October 6-10, 2014

Program
 

Monday, October 6, 2014
09:00 - 09:30
Registration (5345) and Coffee & Croissants (6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
David Conlon
(University of Oxford)
Freiman homomorphisms in random sets
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:40
Gang Yu
(Kent State University)
Some sequences with bounded off-peak aperiodic auto-correlations
Abstract
11:50 - 12:30
Hamed Hatami
(McGill University)
Testing for affine invariant properties of algebraic functions
Abstract
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:20
Yufei Zhao
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Green-Tao theorem and a relative Szemerédi theorem
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:25
Tatchai Titichetrakun
(University of British Columbia)
Distance and square problems on integer lattice
Abstract
16:30 - 16:55
Melvyn B. Nathanson
(CUNY)
A forest of linear fractional transformations
Abstract

 

Tuesday, October 7, 2014
09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Thomas Bloom
(University of Bristol)
Structure in large spectra
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:40
Eric Naslund
(Princeton University)
A density increment approach to Roth’s theorem in the primes
Abstract
11:50 - 12:30
Lilian Matthiesen
(Institut de Math. de Jussieu-UMR7586)
Generalised Fourier coefficients of multiplicative functions
Abstract
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:20
Frederick Manners
(University of Oxford)
The pyjama problem
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:25
Albert Bush
(Georgia Tech)
Few products, many h-fold sums
Abstract
16:30 - 16:55
Jean-Marc Deshouillers
(Université de Bordeaux 1)
Probabilistic models for sums of s-th powers
Abstract

 

Wednesday, October 8, 2014
09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Nikos Frantzikinakis
(University of Crete)
Uniformity of bounded multiplicative functions and applications
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:40
Antal Balog
(Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics)
On sums of dilates of a finite set
Abstract
11:50 - 12:30
Kevin Henriot
(University of British Columbia)
On linear equations in dense subsets of the squares
Abstract
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:20
Akos Magyar
(University of British Columbia)
Almost prime points on smooth, homogeneous varieties
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:25
Neil Lyall
(University of Georgia)
Large (pinned) distances in sets of positive density
Abstract
16:30 - 16:55
Dubi Kelmer
(Boston College)
Equidistribution of translated cuspidal geodesics
Abstract
17:00 - 17:25
Gautami Bhowmik
(Université de Lille I)
Lattice polyhedra in additive combinatorics
Abstract

 

Thursday, October 9, 2014
09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Jacob Fox
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
A short proof of the multidimensional Szemerédi theorem in the primes
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:40
Jozsef Solymosi
(University of British Columbia)
On the sum-product problem
Abstract
11:50 - 12:30
Shachar Lovett
(University of California, San Diego)
Applications of additive combinatorics in theoretical computer science
Abstract
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:20
Fernando Xuancheng Shao
(Stanford University)
Vinogradov's theorem for positive-density subsets of primes
Abstract

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245

Session - Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
Meeting room(s) : 1140

16:00 - 17:00
Alex Kontorovich
(Rutgers University)
Applications of additive combinatorics to homogeneous dynamics
Abstract

 

Friday, October 10, 2014
09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Kaisa Matomäki
(University of Turku)
On sumsets of multisets in $\mathbb{Z}_p^m$
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:40
Sean Eberhard
(University of Oxford)
Folner sequences and sum-free sets
Abstract
11:50 - 12:30
Olof Sisask
(KTH)
Roth's theorem for equations with four variables
Abstract
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:20
Hoi Nguyen
(The Ohio State University)
Near invariance of the hypercube
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:25
Mohammad Bardestani
(University of Ottawa)
Representation theory of Chevalley groups and its applications in additive combinatorics
Abstract
16:30 - 16:55
Éric Balandraud
(Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6))
Applications of the combinatorial Nullstellensatz in additive combinatorics
Abstract

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