CANT 2016 Program
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Registration and coffee in the Math Lounge on the 4th floor

9:00 - 9:25 a.m.

Sandie Han, New York City Tech (CUNY)“Characterization of matrix ∈ GL2 (N0 ) as productof certain pairs of 2 × 2 matrices”

9:30 - 9:55 a.m.

Arnab Bose, University of Lethbridge, Canada“Investigations on some exponential congruences”

10:00 - 10:25 a.m.

George Grossman, Central Michigan University“Combinatorial identities with Fibonacci and Lucas numbers”

10:30 - 10:55 a.m.

Paul Baginski, Fairfield University“Arithmetic progressions, nonunique factorization,
and additive combinatorics in the group of units mod n”

11:00 - 11:25 a.m.

Coffee break

11:30 - 11:55 a.m.

Jiange Li, University of Delaware“An entropy analogue of the more sums than differences problem”

12:00 - 12:25 p.m.

Colin Defant, University of Florida“The unitary Cayley graph of Z/nZ”

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

CANT 2016 Program
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198

1:30 - 1:55 p.m.

Mohamed El Bachraoui, United Arab Emirates University 1−q b n“On the polynomiality of 1−qa m ”

2:00 - 2:25 p.m.

Neil Lyall, University of Georgia“Some new results in geometric Ramsey theory”

2:30 - 2:55 p.m.

Akos Magyar, University of Georgia“A Roth type theorem for dense subsets of Rd ”

3:00 - 3:50 p.m.

Van Vu, Yale University“Sum-free sets in groups”

4:00 - 4:25 p.m.

Brendan Murphy, University of Rochester“Half-way to Szemerédi-Trotter over finite fields”

4:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Problem session, moderated by Mel Nathanson

5:15 - 6:00 p.m.

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

CANT 2016 Program
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198

8:00 - 8:30 a.m.

Registration and coffee in the Math Lounge on the 4th floor

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Ariane Masuda, New York City Tech (CUNY)“Weierstrass semigroups on Kummer extensions”

9:00 - 9:50 a.m.

Yuri Tschinkel, NYU“Counting integral points on orbits of algebraic groups”

10:00 - 10:25 a.m.

Giorgis Petridis, University of Rochester“Products of differences in finite fields”

10:30 - 10:55 a.m.

Sam Cole, University of Illinois at Chicago“Planted partitions in random graphs”

11:00 - 11:25 a.m.

Urban Larsson, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada“Sumsets and impartial games”

11:30 - 12:20 a.m.

Péter Pál Pach,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary“Progression-free sets in Zn4 ”

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

CANT 2016 Program
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198

1:30 - 1:55 p.m.

Gautami Bhowmik, Universit of Lille, France“A combinatorial problem from a mediaeval Sanskrit text”

2:00 - 2:25 p.m.

Bradley Rodgers, University of Michigan“Divisor sums in short intervals and counts of plane partitions”

2:30 - 2:55 p.m.

Steven Senger, Missouri State University“A few sum-product type estimates”

3:00 - 3:50 p.m.

Tom Sanders, Oxford University, UK“Monochromatic sums and products”

4:00 - 4:25 p.m.

Alex Iosevich, University of Rochester“On analytic, combinatorial and number theoretic aspectsof the distance graph”

4:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Problem session, moderated by Alex Iosevich

5:15 - 6:00 p.m.

Pizza party in the Math Lounge, 4th floor

CANT 2016 ProgramThursday, May 26, 2016
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Registration and coffee in the Math Lounge on the 4th floor

9:00 - 9:25 a.m.

Nathan McNew, Towson University“Counting Integers divisible by a large shifted prime”

9:30 - 9:55 a.m.

Kamil Bulinski, University of Sydney, Australia“Twisted multiple recurrence and patterns in large subsets of Zd ”

10:00 - 10:25 a.m.

Satyanand Singh, New York City Tech (CUNY)“The odd behavior of Nathanson’s lambda sequences”

10:30 - 10:55 a.m.

Mizan Khan, Eastern Connecticut State University“On White’s characterization of empty lattice tetrahedra”

11:00 - 11:25 a.m.

Pierre Bienvenu, University of Bristol, UK“Higher dimensional Siegel-Walfisz theorem”

11:30 - 11:55 a.m.

Andrew Treglown, University of Birmingham, UK“Maximal sum-free subsets in the integers”

12:00 - 12:25 p.m.

Yoni Stanchescu, Afeka College and the Open University of Israel“Small sumsets in torsion-free groups”

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

CANT 2016 Program
Thursday, May 26, 2016
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198

1:30 - 1:55 p.m.

Jonathan Sondow, New York“Babbage’s (non)-primality tests”

2:00 - 2:25 p.m.

James Sellers, Pennsylvania State University“Infinitely many congruences modulo 5 for 4-colored Frobenius partitions”

2:30 - 2:55 p.m.

William J. Keith, Michigan Technological University“Partitions simultaneously regular, distinct, and/or flat”

3:00 - 3:25 p.m.

Sarfraz Ahmad, Comsats Institute of Information Technology,Lahore, Pakistan“On the chain blockers of the poset C5 × Cb ”

3:30 - 3:55 p.m.

Ray Li, Carnegie-Mellon, Steven J. Miller, Williams College,
Zhao Pan, Carnegie-Mellon, and Huanzhong Xu, Carnegie-Mellon“Convergence rates in generalized Zeckendorf decomposition problems”

4:00 - 4:25 p.m.

Steven J. Miller, Williams College, Victor Xu, Carnegie-Mellon,
and Xiaorong Zhang, Carnegie-Mellon“Existence of MSTD subsets and divots in the missing sums distribution”

4:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Problem session, moderated by Steve Miller

5:15 - 6:00 p.m.

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

CANT 2016 Program
Friday, May 27, 2016
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Registration and coffee in the Math Lounge on the 4th floor

9:00 - 9:25 a.m.

Rishi Nath, York College (CUNY)“Sequences of simultaneous core partitions”

9:30 - 9:55 a.m.

Ben Krause, University of British Columbia“Discrete analogues in harmonic analysis: A monomial Carlson theorem”

10:00 - 10:50 a.m.

Sinai Robins, ICERM at Brown University,and University of Sao Paulo, Brazil“Discrete volumes of polytopes, Fourier transforms of polytopes,
and solid angle sums”

11:00 - 11:25 a.m.

Amanda Montejano, UMDI-Facultad de Ciencias,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Querétaro, México“Zero-sum k-blocks in {−1, +1} bounded sum sequences”

11:30 - 11:55 a.m.

Ryan Ronan, CUNY Graduate Center“An asymptotic for the growth of Markoff-Hurwitz tuples”

12:00 - 12:25 p.m.

Mel Nathanson, Lehman College (CUNY)“Comparison estimates for linear forms”

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

CANT 2016 Program
Friday, May 27, 2016
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198

1:30 - 1:55 p.m.

Brian Hopkins, St. Peter’s University“Color restricted n-color compositions”

2:00 - 2:50 p.m.

S. V. Konyagin, Steklov Mathematical Instituteof the Russian Academy of Sciences“Number of nontrivial solutions of an equation with reciprocals”

3:00 - 3:25 p.m.

Johann Thiel, New York City Tech (CUNY)“The growth of coefficients in certain PLFT (u, v)-Calkin-Wilf trees”

3:30 - 4:00 p.m.

Problem session, moderated by Kevin O’Bryant

4:15 - 6:00 p.m.

End of conference reception
in the Math Lounge, 4th floor