Talks held during this semester were:
| Date | Speaker and
Affiliation |
Title of talk |
|---|---|---|
| September 14 | Mel Nathanson
Lehman College (CUNY) |
A survey of additive number theory |
| September 21 | Jordan Ellenberg
Princeton University |
Twisted Fermat equations and Q-curves |
| September 28 | Qing Xiang
University of Delaware |
A vector space analogue of Kneser's theorem and applications
(abstract) |
| October 5 | Sandy Han
New York City Technical College (CUNY) |
The structure of sumsets of lattice points |
| October 12 | No meeting | |
| October 19 | Mel Nathanson
Lehman College (CUNY) |
Growth of sumsets in abelian semigroups:
An elementary proof of a theorem of Khovanskii |
| October 26 | No meeting | |
| November 2 | No meeting | |
| November 9 (at 2PM) | Paula B. Cohen
CNRS, Lille Cancelled |
A generalised six squares theorem applied to PI algebras
(abstract) |
| November 16 | No Meeting | |
| November 23 | No Meeting | |
| November 30 (at 5:00 p.m.) | Renling Jin
College of Charleston |
Scrutinizing the Sumset Phenomenon
(abstract) |
| December 7 | Janos Pintz
Renyi Institute, Budapest and Rutgers |
On the sum of two primes and powers of 2 |
| December 14 | Elon Lindenstrauss
IAS |
Rigidity of hyperbolic Z^n actions and some questions in
number theory and quantum chaos(abstract) |