CANT 2017 Program
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
8:00 - 8:45 a.m.

Coffee and muffins in the Math Lounge, Room 4214

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Robert Donley, Queensborough Community College (CUNY)“Clebsch-Gordan coefficients in characteristic zero”
Nathan McNew, Towson State University“Primitive and geometric-progression-free sets without large gaps”
Yifan Zhang, Central Michigan University“The generating function of the product of second-order recurrence sequences”

9:35 - 10:05 a.m.
10:10 - 10:40 a.m.

10:40 - 11:10 a.m.

Coffee break11:10 - 11:40 a.m.

Jonathan Sondow, New York“Power-sum denominators”
James Sellers, Pennsylvania State University“An infinite family of congruences for `-regular overpartitions ”

11:45 - 12:15 p.m.

12:15 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Ali Armandnejad, Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Iran
“Number of signature matrices on each component of J-orthogonal matrices”
Charles Helou, Pennsylvania State University - Brandywine“Cyclotomic expressions for representation functions”
Mizan R. Khan, Eastern Connecticut State University“An amuse-bouche arising from a result of Mordell ”
Ajmain Yamin, Bronx High School of Science“An n-dimensional Calkin-Wilf tree and its graph structure”

2:05 - 2:35 p.m.
2:40 - 2:55 p.m.
3:00 - 3:15 p.m.

3:15 - 3:40 p.m.

Coffee break

3:40 - 4:10 p.m.

Nana Li, Bard College at Simon’s Rock“On the union-closed sets conjecture”
Brian Hopkins, St. Peter’s University“Magic configurations ”
Jared Lichtman, Dartmouth College“Lying on the Fermat primality test”

4:15 - 4:45 p.m.
4:50 - 5:20 p.m.

5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Wine and cheese reception in the Math Lounge, Room 4214

CANT 2017 Program
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
8:00 - 8:45 a.m.

Coffee and muffins in the Math Lounge, Room 4214

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Byungchan Kim, SeoulTech, Republic of Korea“(q, t)-Delannoy numbers and integer partitions”
Jack Sonn, Technion, Israel“Quadratic residues and difference sets”
Colin Defant, University of Florida“A new proof of Euler’s formula for ζ(2k)”

9:35 - 10:05 a.m.
10:10 - 10:40 a.m.

10:40 - 11:10 a.m.

Coffee break11:10 - 11:40 a.m.

David Chudnovsky and Gregory Chudnovsky, NYU“Near isomorphism of graphs”
Joseph Gunther, CUNY Graduate Center“Slicing the stars: Counting algebraic numbers by degree and height”

11:45 - 12:15 p.m.

12:15 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Hershy Kisilevsky, Concordia University, Canada“Sign matrices and quadratic residue matrices”
Yuri Tschinkel, Courant Institute, NYU“Rationality problems”
Robert Hough, SUNY at Stony Brook“The shape of cubic fields”

2:05 - 2:35 p.m.
2:40 - 3:10 p.m.

3:10 - 3:40 p.m.

Coffee break

3:40 - 4:10 p.m.

4:50 - 5:20 p.m.

Mengquing Qin, Missouri State University“Bounds on AA + AA in terms of AA in finite fields”
Yoni Stancescu, Afeka College, Israel“Selected problems and results in inverse additive number theory”
Problem session, moderated by Kevin O’Bryant

5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Pizza party in the Math Lounge, Room 4214

4:15 - 4:45 p.m.

CANT 2017 Program
Thursday, May 25, 2017
CUNY Graduate CenterScience Center, Room 4102
8:00 - 8:45 a.m.

Coffee and muffins in the Science Center

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Ryan Ronan, CUNY Graduate Center“An asymptotic for the growth of Markoff-Hurwitz tuples”
Abdul Basit, Rutgers - New Brunswick“Recent improvements in sum-product estimates”
Sándor Kiss, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary“On the structure of sets which has coincide representation functions”

9:35 - 10:05 a.m.
10:10 - 10:40 a.m.

10:40 - 11:10 a.m.

Coffee break

11:10 - 11:40 a.m.

Satyanand Singh, New York City Tech (CUNY)“A sinusoidal twist with exponential influences”
Michael Maltenfort, Northwestern University“Characterizing additive systems”

11:45 - 12:15 p.m.

12:15 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Giorgis Petridis, University of Georgia“An inverse sum-product result in arbitrary fields ”
Neil Lyall, University of Georgia“Embedding distance graphs into sets of positive density, I”
Akos Magyar, University of Georgia“Embedding distance graphs into sets of positive density, II ”

2:05 - 2:35 p.m.
2:40 - 3:10 p.m.

3:10 - 3:40 p.m.

Coffee break

3:40 - 4:10 p.m.

Alex Iosevich, University of Rochester“On a two-parameter variant of the Erdős distance problem”
Azita Mayeli, Queensborough CC and Graduate Center (CUNY)“Recent developments in Gabor orthogonal bases on finite vector spaces”
William J. Keith, Michigan Technological University“Major index over descent for pattern avoidance classes:
unimodality and other combinatorial features”

4:15 - 4:45 p.m.
4:50 - 5:20 p.m.

5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Wine and cheese reception in the Science CenterCANT 2017 Program
Friday, May 26, 2017
CUNY Graduate Center
Science Center, Room 4102
8:00 - 8:45 a.m.

Coffee and muffins in the Science Center

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Steven J. Miller, Williams College“Ramsey theory over number fields and quaternions”
Steve Senger, Missouri State University“Rainbow triangles”
Hans Parshall, University of Georgia“Spherical quadrilaterals over finite fields”

9:35 - 10:05 a.m.
10:10 - 10:40 a.m.

10:40 - 11:10 a.m.

Coffee break

11:10 - 11:40 a.m.

Salvatore Tringali, University of Graz, Austria“On the Interplay between arithmetic combinatorics and factorization theory”
Csaba Sándor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary“A lower bound of Ruzsa’s number related to the Erdős-Turán conjecture”

11:45 - 12:15 p.m.

12:15 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Sinai Robins, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil“Discrete volumes and Fourier transforms of polytopes, and solid angle sums”
Sam Chow, University of York, England“Bohr sets and multiplicative diophantine approximation”
Brandon Hanson, Pennsylvania State University“Integers not represented by diagonal forms of large degree”

2:05 - 2:35 p.m.
2:40 - 3:10 p.m.

3:10 - 3:40 p.m.

Coffee break

3:40 - 4:10 p.m.

4:50 - 5:20 p.m.

Stefan Steinerberger, Yale University“Strange new interactions between analysis and number theory”
Mel Nathanson, CUNY
“Problems in additive number theory and some applicationsof commutative algebra”
Problem session, moderated by Steve Miller

5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Wine and cheese reception in the Science Center

4:15 - 4:45 p.m.