CANT 2018 Program
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
8:15 - 9:00 a.m.

Coffee and muffins in Room C198

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Andrey Rukhin, NSWCDD. Dept. Of Navy
“Alternative proofs of Steiner’s 1-cycle theorem”
Maximilian Wötzel, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain“Set systems with distinct sumsets”
Wenbo Sun, Ohio State University“Solution counting problem and quantitative recurrence theorem”
Trevor Hyde, University of Michigan“Polynomial factorization statistics and point configurations in R3 ”
Cosmin Pohoata, California Institute of Technology“Higher energies in additive combinatorics and discrete geometry”
David Ross, University of Hawaii“Non-archimedean extensions of R and diophantine equations
connected to Egyptian fractions”

9:35 - 10:05 a.m.
10:10 - 10:40 a.m.
10:45 - 11:15 a.m.
11:20 - 11:50 a.m.
11:55 - 12:25 p.m.

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch

2:00 - 2:50 p.m.

4:45 - 5:15 p.m.

Joel Moreira, Northwestern University“A solution to the Erdős sumset conjecture”
Gabriel Conant, University of Notre Dame
“VC-dimension in groups”
Caroline Amelia Terry, University of Maryland“A stable arithmetic regularity lemma in finite abelian groups”
Kevin Kwan, Columbia University, andSteven J. Miller, Williams College“Near-perfect, within-perfect, and order-a-abundant numbers”
Problem session, led by Steven J. Miller

5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Wine and cheese reception in the Math Lounge, Room 4214

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
3:35 - 4:05 p.m.
4:10 - 4:40 p.m.

CANT 2018 Program
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
8:15 - 9:00 a.m.

Coffee and muffins in Room C198

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Sukumar Das Adhikari, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, andRamakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, India“Some early Ramsey-type theorems in combinatorial number theory
and some generalizations”
Ayla Gafni, University of Rochester“Additive energy and the metric Poissonian property”
Arseniy Sheydvasser, Yale University“Rigidity in the Ulam sequence”
Péter Pál Pach,“On multiplicative Sidon sets”
Leonid Fel, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology“Numerical semigroups generated by squares, cubes, and quarticsof three consecutive integers”
Mauro Di Nasso, University of Pisa, Italy“A generalized notion of asymptotic density”

9:35 - 10:05 a.m.
10:10 - 10:40 a.m.
10:45 - 11:15 a.m.
11:20 - 11:50 a.m.

11:55 - 12:25 p.m.

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch

2:00 - 2:50 p.m.

Joel Moreira, Northwestern University“A solution to the Erdős sumset conjecture”
Shabnam Akhtari, University of Oregon“Representation of integers by binary forms”
Yuri Tschinkel, Courant Institute, New York University“Arithmetic of del Pezzo surfaces”
Robert Hough, SUNY Stony Brook“The local limit theorem on nilpotent Lie groups”
Margaret Bilu, New York University“Motivic Euler products”

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
3:35 - 4:05 p.m.
4:10 - 4:40 p.m.
4:45 - 5:15 p.m.

5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Pizza party in the Math Lounge, Room 4214

CANT 2018 Program
Thursday, May 24, 2018
CUNY Graduate Center, Science Center, Room 4102
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Coffee and muffins in Room 4102

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Paul Baginski, Fairfield University“Nonunique factorization in the ring of integer-valued polynomials”
Gautami Bhowmik, University of Lille, France“Asymptotics of Goldbach functions and zeros of L–functions”
Christoph Spiegel, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain“Going beyond 2.4 in Freiman’s 2.4-Theorem”
Scott Chapman, Sam Houston State University“On the catenary degree of elements in a numerical monoid
generated by an arithmetic sequence”
Ram Krishna Pandey, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India“Direct and inverse theorems on the general h-fold sumsetsand on the sums of dilated sets”
Steven Leth, University of Northern Colorado“Some questions and results about SIM sets”

9:35 - 10:05 a.m.
10:10 - 10:40 a.m.
10:45 - 11:15 a.m.

11:20 - 11:50 a.m.

11:55 - 12:25 p.m.

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch

2:00 - 2:50 p.m.

Joel Moreira, Northwestern University“A solution to the Erdős sumset conjecture”
Lola Thompson, Oberlin College“Divisor-sum fibers”
Huixi Li, Clemson University“On Lemoine’s conjecture and a theorem by Estermann”
Daniel Glasscock, Northeastern University“Combinatorial cubes and solutions to linear equations in Piatetski-Shapiro sets”
Kevin O’Bryant, College of Staten Island (CUNY)“Explicit bounds for primes in arithmetic progressions”

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
3:35 - 4:05 p.m.
4:10 - 4:40 p.m.
4:45 - 5:15 p.m.

5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Wine and cheese reception in the Math Lounge, Room 4214

CANT 2018 Program
Friday, May 25, 2018
CUNY Graduate Center
Parallel sessions in Rooms 4102 and 5417
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Room 4102

Room 5417::
9:35 - 10:05 a.m.
Room 4102

Room 5417::
10:10 - 10:40 a.m.
Room 4102

Room 5417::
10:45 - 11:15 a.m.
Room 4102

Room 5417:
11:20 - 11:50 a.m.
Room 4102

Room 5417::

Coffee and muffins in Room 4102

Angel Kumchev, Towson State University“A hybrid of two theorems of Piatetski-Shapiro”
John R. Schmitt, Middlebury College“Distinct partial sums in cyclic groups”
Jared Duker Lichtman, Dartmouth College“Explicit estimates for the distribution of numbers
free of large prime factors”
Eric Rowland, Hofstra University“Enumeration of binomial coefficients by their p-adic valuations”
Alex Rice, Millsaps College“Extending the best known bounds for the Furstenberg-Sárközy theorem”
Nathan McNew, Towson University“Counting primitive subsets of {1, 2, ...n}”Henry Towsner, University of Pennsylvania“Generalizing VC dimension to higher arity”
Carrie Finch-Smith, Washington and Lee University“Iterated Riesel and Sierpiński numbers”
Azita Mayeli, Queensborough CC and CUNY Graduate Center“Existence of no Gabor orthogonal bases on smooth and symmetric convex sets”
Satyanand Singh, New York City Tech (CUNY)“A Refinement of the Calkin Wilf Tree with some of its Implications”

CANT 2018 Program
Friday, May 25, 2018
Parallel sessions in Rooms 4102 and 5417

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
1:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Room 4102

Room 5417:

2:05 - 2:35 p.m.
Room 4102

Room 5417
2:40 - 3:10 p.m.
Room 4102

Room 5417
3:15 - 3:45 p.m.
Room 4102

Room 5417:
3:50 - 4:20 p.m.
Room 4102

Room 5417:

4:25 - 5:00 p.m.
Room 4102
5:00 p.m.

Lunch

Steven Senger, Missouri State University“Rainbow point configurations”
Robert Donley, Queensborough Community College (CUNY)
Title: Central zeros of Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients

Yuneid Puig de Dios, University of California, Riverside“Recurrence sets of linear operators with high piecewise syndeticity level”
Diego Marques, Universidade de Brası́lia, Brazil“On some problems proposed by Kurt Mahler”
Brad Isaacson, New York City Tech (CUNY)“On some elementary character sums”
Ariane Masuda, New York City Tech (CUNY)“Permutation polynomials over Fq2 from rational functions”
Katie McKeon, Rutgers University“Low-lying fundamental geodesics in an arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifold”
Mizan R. Khan, Eastern Connecticut State University“Hensley’s Theorem on clean lattice tetrahedra with interior lattice points”
John H. Johnson, Ohio State University“Upper Banach density along filters”
Jeshu Dastidar, Queens College (CUNY)“On the maximal number of roots of a trinomial over a prime field”

Problem session, led by Kevin O’Bryant
Wine and cheese reception in the Math Lounge, Room 4214