CANT 2011 Program
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Registration and coffee

9:00 - 9:25 a.m.

Peter Hegarty, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden“Sumsets, exponents and growth of graph powers”

9:30 - 10:20 a.m.

Seva Lev, University of Haifa, Israel“Doubling-critical sets in binary spaces”

10:40 - 11:05 a.m.

Željka Ljujić, CUNY Graduate Center“A lower bound for the size of a sum of dilates”

11:10 - 12:00 a.m.

Giorgis Petridis, University of Cambridge, England“The Plünnecke-Ruzsa inequality, 1”

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch and math movie

1:30 - 1:55 p.m.

Charles Helou, Penn State - Brandywine“Representations by near quadratic sequences”

2:00 - 2:50 p.m.

Matt Devos, Simon Fraser University, Canada“Transforms and Kneser’s addition theorem in groups”

3:00 - 3:25 p.m.

Aviezri Fraenkel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel“Aperiodic subtraction games”

3:30 - 3:55 p.m.

Urban Larsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden“From heaps of matches to the limits of computability”

4:00 - 4:25 p.m.

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

4:30 -5:00 p.m.

Problem session 1, led by Peter Hegarty

5:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Wine and cheese reception
in the mathematics common room on the fourth floor

CANT 2011 Program
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Registration and coffee

9:00 - 9:25 a.m.

Rishi Nath, York College (CUNY)“Simultaneous core partitions”

9:30 - 9:55 a.m.

Jonathan Sondow, New York
“Ramanujan primes: bounds, runs, twins, and gaps”

10:00 - 10:25 a.m.

Nathan Kaplan, Harvard University“Counting semigroups of genus g and Weierstrasssemigroups of algebraic curves”

10:40 - 11:05 a.m.

Renling Jin, College of Charleston“One set fits all”

11:10 - 12:00 a.m.

Giorgis Petridis, University of Cambridge, England“The Plünnecke-Ruzsa inequality, 2”

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch and math movie

1:30 - 1:55 p.m.

Mel Nathanson, CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College“Hamidoune’s method in additive number theory, 1”

2:00 - 2:50 p.m.

Matt Devos, Simon Fraser University, Canada”A generalization of Kneser’s theorem to nonabelian groups”

3:00 - 3:25 p.m.

Lan Nguyen“On the Grothendieck group associated to quantum arithmetic”

3:30 - 3:55 p.m.

Omar Kihel, Brock University, Canada“On permutation binomials over finite fields”

4:00 - 4:25 p.m.

Jonathan Cutler, Montclair State University“Extremal problems for homomorphisms”

4:30 -5:00 p.m.

Problem session 2, led by Kevin O’Bryant

5:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Wine and cheese reception
in the mathematics common room on the fourth floor

CANT 2011 Program
Thursday, May 26, 2011
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9204
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Registration and coffee

9:00 - 9:25 a.m.

Scott Chapman, Sam Houston State University“Factorizations of algebraic integers, block monoids,and additive number theory”

9:30 - 9:55 a.m.

Mei-Chu Chang, University of California - Riverside“Character sums with smooth moduli”

10:00 - 10:25 a.m.

Neil Lyall, University of Georgia“Polynomial patterns in subsets of the integers”

10:40 - 11:05 a.m.

Alex Kontorovich, SUNY at Stony Brook“On Zaremba’s Conjecture”

11:10 - 12:00 a.m.

Giorgis Petridis, University of Cambridge, England“The Plünnecke-Ruzsa inequality,3”

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch and math movie

1:30 - 1:55 p.m.

Mel Nathanson, CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College“Hamidoune’s method in additive number theory, 2”

2:00 - 2:50 p.m.

Matt Devos, Simon Fraser University, Canada“Toward the Schrijver-Seymour conjecture”

3:30 - 3:55 p.m.

Steven J. Miller, Williams College“Cookie Monster meets the Fibonacci numbers, II.
Mmmmmm – theorems!”

4:00 - 4:25 p.m.

Steven J. Miller, Sean C. Pegado, Sidney Luc Robinson,
Williams College“Explicit Constructions of Generalized MSTD Sets”

4:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Problem session 3, led by Alex Kontorovich

5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Wine and cheese reception

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Conference banquet at Grand Sichuan Restaurant,
227 Lexington Avenue (between 33rd and 34th Streets)CANT 2011 Program
Friday, May 27, 2011
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Registration and coffee

9:00 - 9:25 a.m.

Paul Baginski, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France“Factoring within arithmetic progressions”

9:30 - 9:55 a.m.

Alex Iosevich, University of Rochester“Sum-product theory over Zpl ”

10:00 - 10:25 a.m.

Thai Hoang Le, Institute for Advanced Study“Problems and results on intersective sets”

10:40 - 11:05 a.m.

Steve Senger, University of Missouri“Consequences and connections of recent resultsin geometric combinatorics”

11:10 - 12:00 a.m.

Giorgis Petridis, University of Cambridge, England“The Plünnecke-Ruzsa inequality, 4”

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch and math movie

1:30 - 1:55 p.m.

Mel Nathanson, CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College“Hamidoune’s method in additive number theory, 3”

2:00 - 2:50 p.m.

Matt Devos, Simon Fraser University, Canada“Small separations in vertex-transitive graphs”

3:00 - 3:25 p.m.

Hoi H. Nguyen, University of Pennsylvania“Inverse Littlewood-Offord theorems for quadratic forms
and the singularity of random symmetric matrices”

3:30 - 3:55 p.m.

Mizan R. Khan, Eastern Connecticut State University“Revisiting Toom’s proof of Bulgarian Solitaire”

4:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Problem session 4, led by Seva Lev

4:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Wine and cheese reception
in the mathematics common room on the fourth floor

5:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Excursion to the Museum of Modern Art