CANT 2010 Program
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 6417
8:30 - 9:15 a.m.

Registration and coffee

9:15 - 9:55 a.m.

Aviezri Fraenkel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel“Complementary sets of integers”

10:05 - 10:35 a.m.

Rishi Nath, York College (CUNY)“Welter’s game and Young diagrams: A new interpretation involving hooks”

10:45 - 11:15 a.m.

Lan Nguyen, University of Michigan“Functional equations for quantum integers”

11:25 - 11:55 a.m.

Sinan Gunturk, Courant Institute, NYU“Additive number theory and quantization of signals”12:00 - 12:30 p.m.

Urban Larsson, Chalmers University of Technology
and University of Gothenburg, Sweden“Invariant and dual subtraction games resolving the Duchêne-Rigo conjecture”

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch and math movie

1:30 - 2:10 p.m.

Kent Boklan, Queens College (CUNY)“Every even except 22, 50, 114, 186, 212, 238, 364, 420, 428 and 454
and every odd congruent to 0, 1, 2, 7, 8 (mod 9) is the sum of seven cubes”

2:20 - 3:00 p.m.

John Friedlander, University of Toronto”Close relatives of the primes”

3:10 - 3:40 p.m.

Jonathan Sondow, New York
“Algebraic and transcendental solutions of some exponential equations”

3:50 - 4:30 p.m.

Peter Hegarty, Chalmers University of Technology
and University of Gothenburg, Sweden“Some new connections between additive number theory and graph theory”

4:30 -5:00 p.m.

Problem session 1

5:00 - 6:30 p.m.

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

CANT 2010 Program
Thursday, May 27, 2010
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 6417
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Registration and coffee

9:00 - 9:40 a.m.

Alex Iosevich, University of Rochester“Sharpness of Falconer’s estimate, geometric incidence theorems,and distribution of lattice points in convex domains, I”

9:50 - 10:20 a.m.

Steven Senger, University of Missouri“Sharpness of Falconer’s estimate, geometric incidence theorems,and distribution of lattice points in convex domains, II”

10:30 - 11:10 a.m.

Neil Lyall, University of Georgia“Simultaneous optimal polynomial recurrence”

11:20 - 11:50 a.m.

Brian Cook, University of British Columbia“Constellations in P d ”

12:00 - 12:30 p.m.

David Covert, University of Missouri“A Furstenberg-Katznelson-Weiss type theorem on (d + 1)-point configurations in fin

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch and math movie

1:40 - 2:10 p.m.

John Griesmer, University of British Columbia“Sumsets with one dense summand”

2:20 - 2:50 p.m.

Scott Chapman, Sam Houston State University“Erdős-Zaks all divisor sets”

3:00 - 3:40 p.m.

John Steinberger, Institute for Theoretical Computer Science,
Tsinghua University, Beijing“Coset arrays and nonnegative integer linear combinations”

3:50 - 4:20 p.m.

Kevin O’Bryant, College of Staten Island (CUNY)“Sets of integers without solutions to systems of equations”

4:30 -5:00 p.m.

Problem session 2

6:30 p.m.

Conference dinner

CANT 2010 Program
Friday, May 28, 2010
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 6417
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Registration and coffee

9:00 - 9:40 a.m.

Renling Jin, College of Charleston“Every compact plane set with the square property
contains an integral diagonal pair”

9:50 - 10:20 a.m.

Željka Ljujić, CUNY Graduate Center“Periodicity of complementing multisets”

10:30 - 11:00 a.m.

Alex Kontorovich, IAS and Brown“Progress on affine sieves”

11:10 - 11:50 p.m.

Mei-Chu Chang, University of California-Riverside“Incomplete character sums over finite fields”

12:00 - 12:30 p.m.

William J. Keith, Drexel University“Partitions with prescribed hooksets”

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch and math movie

1:30 - 2:10 p.m.

Jaewoo Lee, Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY)“Algebraic proof for the geometric structure of sumsets”

2:20 - 2:50 p.m.

Hannah Alpert, University of Chicago“Finite phase transitions in countable abelian groups”

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Alex Rice, University of Georgia“Polynomial difference in the primes”

3:40 - 4:10 p.m.

Melvyn B. Nathanson, Lehman College (CUNY)“Indecomposable systems and a theorem of de Bruijn
in additive number theory”

4:10 -4:40 p.m.

Problem session 3

5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Museum of Modern Art

CANT 2010 Program
Saturday, May 29, 2010
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 6417
10:00 - 10:10 a.m.

Registration and coffee

10:10 - 10:40 a.m.

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

10:50 - 11:20 a.m.

Charles Helou, Pennsylvania State University - Brandywine“Supremum of representation functions”

11:30 - 12:00 a.m.

Paul Baginski, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France“Lengths of factorizations in numerical semigroup rings”

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Lunch and math movie

1:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Brandt Kronholm, SUNY at Albany“Generalized Ramanujan congruence propertiesof the restricted partition function p(n, m)”

1:45 - 3:00 p.m.

Problem session 4

5:11 - 5:58 p.m.

NJ Transit train from Penn Station to Short Hills

6:00 p.m.

Conference barbecue and party