In 1982, Number Theorists in New York City and its environs began meeting regularly at the Graduate Center of the City University. The location was convenient to all parts of the city as well as to major transportation hubs. The original organizers were Harvey Cohn, David Chudnovsky, Gregory Chudnovsky and Melvyn B. Nathanson. Harvey Cohn has retired, but Nathanson is now based in the City University and able to act as host of the seminar.
Proceedings of the Seminar have been published by Springer-Verlag, originally in the Lecture Notes in Mathematics series
More recent reports appear as individual volumes, with the simple title Number Theory, and the names of the editors of the volume on the cover.
This page was first developed in the Fall of 2000. Schedules by semester are available.
The Graduate Center is currently located at 365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th Streets. The Ph.D. program in mathematics is located on the fourth floor. The seminar has met on Thursday afternoons for several years. In the Fall 2004 semester the seminar will meet Thursdays at 3:00PM in the seminar room in the math department on the fourth floor of the Graduate Center. A goal of the seminar this year will be to understand the paper of Gowers on a new and quantitative proof of Szemeredi's theorem, and the paper of Green and Tao on arithmetic progressions of prime numbers. More details will be posted in the department common area on the fourth floor. Current information on all seminars can be found in the Seminar Page of the Graduate Center Mathematics Department.
| Date | Speaker and
Affiliation |
Title of talk |
|---|---|---|
| September 2 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center |
Background and overview of this year's topics |
| September 9 | No seminar | |
| September 16 | ||
| September 23 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center |
A simple proof of the Hales-Jewett theorem (abstract) |
| September 30 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center |
A simple proof of the Hales-Jewett theorem, part 2 (abstract) |
| October 07 | Manuel Silva New University of Lisbon |
Topological dynamics and van der Waerden's theorem (abstract) |
| October 14 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center |
Roth's proof of Roth's theorem (abstract) |
| October 21 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center |
Roth's proof of Roth's theorem, part 2 (abstract) |
| October 28 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center |
Sidon sets and representation functions of additive bases (abstract) |
| November 04 | No seminar | |
| November 11 | Alex Kontorovich Columbia University |
Tao's ergodic theory proof of Szemeredi's theorem (abstract) |
| November 18 | No seminar | |
| November 25 | Thanksgiving Day, No seminar | |
| December 02 | Alex Kontorovich Columbia University |
Tao's ergodic theory proof of Szemeredi's theorem, part 2 (abstract) |
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Last updated: April 12, 2005