CANT 2013 Program
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

David Covert, University of Missouri - St. Louis“Geometric configurations in Zq ”

9:40 - 10:10 a.m.

Christopher R. H. Hanusa, Queens College (CUNY)“Applications of simultaneous core partitions”

10:20 - 10:50 a.m.

Gautami Bhowmik, Université de Lille, France“Lattice polyhedra in additive combinatorics”

11:00 - 11:30 a.m.

Kevin Henriot, Université de Montréal, Canada“On arithmetic progressions in A + B + C”

11:40 - 12:30 p.m.

Giorgis Petridis, University of Rochester“Upper bound for higher sumsets with different summands”

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch and math movie

2:00 - 2:30 p.m.

Derrick Hart, Kansas State University“Sumsets of multiplicative subgroups in Zp

2:40 - 3:10 p.m.

Arnab Bhattacharyya, DIMACS, Rutgers University“Every locally characterized affine-invariant property is testable”

3:20 - 3:50 p.m.

Delaram Kahrobaei, New York City Tech (CUNY)“Searching for a secure platform for cryptology”

4:00 - 4:15 p.m.

Richard Magner, Eastern Connecticut State University“Ordinary lines and modular hyperbolas”

4:20 - 4:35 p.m.

Amanda Bower, University of Michigan - Dearborn“Coordinate sum and difference sets of d-dimensional modular hyperbolas”

4:40 - 4:55 p.m.

Ginny Hogan, Stanford University“When generalized sumsets are difference dominated”

5:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Steven J. Miller, Williams College“Mind the gap: Distribution of gaps in generalized Zeckendorf decompositions”

5:30 -6:00 p.m.

Problem session 1, led by Steve Miller

6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Wine and cheese reception in the Math Lounge, 4th floor

CANT 2013 Program
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Nathan Kaplan, Harvard University“Higher weight enumerators for codes and algebraic geometry”

9:40 - 10:10 a.m.

Paul Baginski, Smith College“Length multiset-complete Krull monoids”

10:20 - 10:40 a.m.

Dmitry Zhelezov, Chalmers Institute of Technology, Sweden“Product sets cannot contain long arithmetic progressions”

10:50 - 11:20 a.m.

Steven Senger, University of Delaware“A multi-scale approach to the Erdős-Falconer type single distance problems”

11:30 - 12:30 p.m.

Tom Sanders , Oxford University“The structure theory of set addition revisited, 1”

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch and math movie

2:00 - 2:50 p.m.

Matthew Devos, Simon Fraser University, Canada“The structure of critical product sets”

3:00 - 3:20 p.m.

Tomas Boothby, Simon Fraser University“Almost critical products sets and small edge cuts in almost symmetric graphs”

3:30 - 4:00 p.m.

Alex Rice, Bucknell University“Squares and primes in generalized arithmetic progressions”

4:10 - 4:40 p.m.

Neil Lyall, University of Georgia“A purely combinatorial approach to simultaneous polynomial recurrence mod 1”

4:50 - 5:30 p.m.

Seva Lev, University of Haifa, Israel“How many solutions can a ± b = 2c have?”

5:30 -6:00 p.m.

Problem session 2, led by Seva Lev

6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Wine and cheese reception
in the Math Lounge, 4th floor

CANT 2013 Program
Thursday, May 23, 2013
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Jeff Breeding II, Fordham University“The Jacobsthal function and dimensions of spaces of Siegel modular forms”

9:35 - 10:05 a.m.

Omar Kihel, Brock University“Recognizing the primes using the permutations”

10:15 - 10:45 a.m.

Thai Hoang Le, University of Texas“Sums of reciprocals of fractional parts”

10:50 - 11:20 a.m.

Jonathan Sondow, New York
“Ramanujan, Robin, the Riemann Hypothesis, and recent results”

11:30 - 12:30 p.m.

Tom Sanders , Oxford University“The structure theory of set addition revisited, 2”

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch and math movie

2:00 - 2:50 p.m.

Javier Cilleruelo, University of Madrid, Spain“Infinite Sidon sequences”

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Jerry Hu, University of Houston - Victoria“The probability that algebraic integers are k-wise relatively prime”

3:35 - 3:55 p.m.

Satyanand Singh, New York City Tech (CUNY)“Exponential diophantine equations of Conway and Nathanson”

4:00 - 4:25 p.m.

Rishi Nath, York College (CUNY)“Ten facts about self-conjugate partitions”

4:30 - 4:55 p.m.

Mohamed El Bachraoui, United Arab Emirates University, UAE“A gamma function in two variables”

5:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Kevin O’Bryant, College of Staten Island (CUNY)“A combinatorial problem arising from Padé approximation”

5:30 -6:00 p.m.

Problem session 3, led by Kevin O’Bryant

CANT 2013 Program
Friday, May 24, 2013
9:00 - 9:25 a.m.

Sandra Kingan, Brooklyn College (CUNY)“Strong splitter theorem”

9:30 - 10:10 a.m.

Leopold Flatto, Bell Labs“The dixie cup problem and the FKG inequality”

10:20 - 10:50 a.m.

George Grossman, Central Michigan University“Combinatorial identities with Fibonacci and Lucas numbers”

10:55 - 11:25 a.m.

Brooke Orosz, Essex County College“A construction of generalized ‘More Sum than Difference Sets’ ”

11:30 - 12:30 p.m.

Tom Sanders , Oxford University“The structure theory of set addition revisited, 3”

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch and math movie

2:00 - 2:50 p.m.

Mauro Di Nasso, University of Pisa, Italy“Applications in combinatorial number theory of
iterated nonstandard extensions and idempotent ultrafilters”

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Thomas Bloom, University of Bristol, UK“Sum-product estimates in function fields”

3:40 - 4:10 p.m.

Mel Nathanson, Lehman College (CUNY)“Cantor packing polynomials in sectors”

4:20 - 5:20 p.m.

Renling Jin, College of Charleston“Detailed structure for Freiman’s 3k − 3 theorem”

5:20 -6:00 p.m.

Problem session 4, led by Renling Jin

6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Wine and cheese reception
in the Math Lounge, 4th floor