CANT 2014 Program
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Registration

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Johann Thiel, New York City Tech (CUNY)“RATS Sequences in General Bases”

9:40 - 10:10 a.m.

Nathan Kaplan, Yale University“Arcs in the projective plane”

10:20 - 10:50 a.m.

Eshita Mazumdar, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India“Modification of a certain method in the study of a zero-sum constant”

11:00 - 11:50 a.m.

Thai Hoang Le, University of Texas“Equidistribution of polynomial sequences in function fields”

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Lunch and math movie

1:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Jonathan Sondow, New York
“Primary pseudo-perfect numbers and the Erdős-Moser diophantine equation”

1:40 - 2:30 p.m.

Giorgis Petridis, University of Rochester“On a question of Bukh on sums of dilates”

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

NOTE: The following lecture will be at NYU
Harald Helfgott, École Normale Supérieure, Paris“The ternary Goldbach problem”
Room 109, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University, 251 Mercer Street

CANT 2014 Program
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Satyanand Singh, New York City Tech (CUNY)“Expectations of random h-fold sums of certain uniform distributions”

9:40 - 10:10 a.m.

Alan Chang, Princeton University“Newman’s conjecture in various settings”

10:20 - 10:50 a.m.

Jean-Marc Deshouillers, IPB-IMB Bordeaux, France“Sums of 3 or 4 cubes: Heuristic and numerical approaches”

11:00 - 12:00 p.m.

Harald Helfgott, École Normale Supérieure, Paris“Major arcs in the solution to the ternary Goldbach problem”

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch and math movie

1:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Tim Susse, CUNY Graduate Center and University of Nebraska“Commutators, Quasipolynomials and Lattice Points”

2:10 - 2:50 p.m.

Yonutz V. Stanchescu, Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College, Israel“Structure theorems for dilates of integers and small doubling sets
in Baumslag-Solitar groups”

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Luciane Quoos, Instituto de Matemática, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil“Weierstrass semigroups and algebraic geometric codes on towers of function fields”

3:40 - 4:20 p.m.

Steven J. Miller, Williams College“Continued fraction digit averages and Maclaurin’s inequalities”

4:30 - 5:15 p.m.

Problem session, moderated by Steve Miller

5:15 - 6:15 p.m.

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

CANT 2014 Program
Thursday, May 29, 2014
CUNY Graduate Center, Science Center, Room 4102
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Bren Cavallo, CUNY Graduate Center”The subset sum problem and the conjugacy problem in polycyclic groups”

9:40 - 10:10 a.m.

Paul Baginski, Fairfield University“Factoring within arithmetic progressions, revisited”

10:20 - 10:50 a.m.

Lan Nguyen, University of Wisconsin-Parkside“On the Hasse principle for systems of binary cubic forms”

11:00 - 12:00 p.m.

Harald Helfgott, École Normale Supérieure, Paris“Minor arcs in the solution to the ternary Goldbach problem”

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch and math movie

1:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Angel V. Kumchev, Towson University“New results in the Waring-Goldbach problem”

2:10 - 3:00 p.m.

Alberto Perelli, University of Genova, Italy“The Selberg class of L-functions: A survey”

3:10 - 3:40 p.m.

Nathan McNew, Dartmouth College“Random multiplicative walks and the most popular large prime divisors”

3:50 - 4:40 p.m.

Kevin O’Bryant, College of Staten Island, CUNY
“Sets without geometric progressions”

4:40 - 5:15 p.m.

Problem session, moderated by Kevin O’Bryant

5:15 - 6:15 p.m.

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

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Conference dinner
Ichi Umi Japanese Restaurant, 6 East 32nd Street.

CANT 2014 Program
Friday, May 30, 2014
CUNY Graduate Center, Science Center, Room 4102
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Sandra Kingan, Brooklyn College (CUNY)“Splitters and decomposers for binary matroids”

9:40 - 10:10 a.m.

Sukumar Das Adhikari, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India“Generalizations of certain zero-sum theorems: Some recent progress”

10:20 - 10:50 a.m.

Charles Helou, Penn State Brandywine“Some functions related to the general Erdős-Turán conjecture”

11:00 - 12:00 p.m.

Harald Helfgott, École Normale Supérieure, Paris“Growth in groups: ideas and perspectives”

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch and math movie

1:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Steven Senger, University of Delaware“Some Erdős-type dot product problems and applications”

2:10 - 2:50 p.m

Thomas Bloom, University of Bristol“Quantitative improvements for Roth’s theorem”

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Mel Nathanson, Lehman College, CUNY
“A Calkin-Wilf forest of linear fractional transformations”

3:40 - 4:30 p.m.

Problem session, moderated by Mel Nathanson

4:45 - 6:00 p.m.

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