Atelier sur l'anatomie des nombres entiers
Workshop on Anatomy of Integers

13 - 17 mars 2006
March 13-17, 2006

PROGRAMME

Lundi 13 mars / Monday, March 13, 2006

09:00 - 09:25
Inscription (Salle 5345) et café (Salle 6245)
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee (Room 6245)
09:30 - 09:45
Mot de bienvenue / Welcoming Address

09:45 - 10:45

Dan Goldston (San Jose State University)
Small Prime Gaps: From the Riemann Zeta Function and Pair Correlation to the Circle Method
10:45 - 11:15
Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 6245)

11:15 - 12:15

Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth College)
Anatomy of Euler's function and its friends
Déjeuner / Lunch time
Déjeuner / Lunch time
14:30 - 14:55
Antal Balog (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics)
On smooth twins
15:00 - 15:25
Valentin Blomer (University of Toronto)
Sums of smooth squares
15:30 - 16:00
Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 6245)
16:00 - 16:25 Florian Luca (UNAM)
Compositions with the Euler and Carmichael Functions
16:30 - 17:30 Ernest S. Croot (Georgia Tech)
The Inventory Capacity Problem
17:30 Réception de bienvenue / Welcoming reception

Mardi le 14 mars / Tuesday, March 14, 2006

09:00
Café / Coffee (Salle / Room 6245)

09:30 - 10:30

Kevin Ford (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
How to count numbers with a divisor in a given
interval: main ideas
10:30 - 11:00
Pause café / Coffee break (Salle / Room 6245)
11:00 - 12:00
K. Soundararajan (University of Michigan)
Pretentious characters and the Polya-Vinogradov
theorem

Déjeuner / Lunch time

Déjeuner / Lunch time
14:15 - 14:40
John Friedlander (University of Toronto)
A polynomial divisor problem
14:45 - 15:10
Trevor Wooley (University of Michigan)
Smooth numbers and the circle method
15:15- 15:45
Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 6245)
15:45 - 16:10 Cameron L. Stewart (University of Waterloo)
On pure powers in short intervals
16:15 - 17:15 Harald Andres Helfgott (Université de Montréal)
Power-free values, points on curves, large deviations
and modularity
17:20 - 18:00 Bière et vin / Wine and beer gathering (Salle / Room 6245)

Mercredi 15 mars / Wednesday, March 15, 2006

09:00
Café / Coffee (Salle / Room 6245)
09:30 - 10:30
Jean-Louis Nicolas (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
Parity of the values of the partition function and
anatomy of integers
10:30 - 11:00
Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 6245)

11:00 - 12:00

Dan Goldston (San Jose State University)
Small Prime Gaps: Short Divisor Sums, Correlations,
and Moments
Déjeuner / Lunch time
Déjeuner / Lunch time
14:15 - 14:40
Yu-Ru Liu (University of Waterloo)
On Erdös-Pomerance's conjecture for the Carlitz
module
14:45 - 15:10
Rizwan Khan (University of Michigan)
On the consecutive spacing distribution of normal
numbers
15:15 - 15:45
Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 6245)
15:45 - 16:00
Youness Lamzouri (Université de Montréal)
Smooth numbers and delayed integral equations
16:05 - 17:05 Jie Wu (Université Henri Pointcaré [Nancy 1])
Moyennes de certaines fonctions arithmetiques sur les
entiers friables
17:10 - 18:00 Bière et vin / Wine and beer gathering (Salle / Room 6245)

Jeudi 16 mars / Thursday, March 16, 2006

09:00
Café / Coffee (Salle / Room 6245)
09:30 - 10:30
Dan Goldston (San Jose State University)
Small Prime Gaps: Tuples Approximations, Selberg
Sieve, and Almost Primes
10:30 - 11:00
Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 6245)
11:00 - 12:00
Kevin Ford
(University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Fat subset sums, clump detection and avoidance

Déjeuner / Lunch Time

Déjeuner / Lunch Time
14:15 - 14:30
Jan Cannizzo (Stevens Institute of Technology)
Proof of a Conjecture by Wolke and Related Properties of the Divisor Function
14:35 - 14:50
Gagan Garg (Indian Institute of Science)
Analysis of the lattice sieve
14:55 - 15:10
Ariane Masuda (Carleton University)
Sequences of consecutive smooth polynomials over a
finite field
15:15 - 15:45 Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 6245)
15:45 - 16:10 Cécile Dartyge (Université Henri Pointcaré (Nancy 1)
Congruences for the sum of digits of polynomial values
16:15 - 17:15 K. Soundararajan (University of Michigan)
Distribution of smooth numbers
17:20 - 18:00 Bière et vin / Wine and beer gathering *(Salle / Room 4361)*

Vendredi 17 mars / Friday, March 17, 2006

09:00
Café / Coffee (Salle / Room 6245)

09:30 - 10:30

Régis de la Breteche (Université Paris-Sud)
A Turan-Kubilius inequality for friable integers, with
applications
10:30 - 11:00
Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 6245)

11:00 - 12:00

Kevin Ford (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Prime divisors, order statistics and random walks
Déjeuner / Lunch Time
Déjeuner / Lunch Time
14:15 - 14:40
Elie Mosaki (Institut Camille Jordan, Université de Lyon)
Partitions without small parts
14:45 - 15:10
Greg Martin (University of British Columbia)
Smooth values of polynomials
15:15 - 15:45 Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 6245)
15:45 - 16:10 William Banks (University of Missouri)
Integers without divisors from a fixed arithmetic
progression
16:15 - 16:40 Sergei Konyagin (Moscow State University)
Sieving by large moduli
16:45 - 17:10 Andrew Granville (Université de Montréal)
Square products
17:20 - 18:00 Bière et vin / Beer and wine gathering (Salle / Room 6245)