In January 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. Links to pages between Fall 2000 and Spring 2010 can be found on the Fall 2010 page.
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 Spring and Summer 2022 semester the seminar will meet Thursdays from 3:00 to 4:30 via Zoom while the Graduate Center remians closed. All seminars this semseter have Meeting ID: 840 6618 4717 and Passcode: 304403 and should be available here. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| February 03 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and the Graduate Center |
Best underapproximation by Egyptian fractions (abstract) |
| February 10 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and the Graduate Center |
A chapter on the theory of equations: The theorems of Descartes, Budan-Fourier, and Sturm |
| February 17 | Josiah Sugarman CUNY Graduate Center |
The spectrum of the quaquaversal operator is real (abstract and background reference) |
| February 24 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and the Graduate Center |
The Budan-Fourier theorem and multiplicity matrices of polynomials (abstract) |
| March 03 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and the Graduate Center |
Multiplicity matrices of polynomials (abstract) |
| March 10 | Noah Kravitz Princeton University |
Multiplicity matrices and zeros of polynomials |
| March 17 | David and Gregory Chudnovsky NYU Tandon School of Engineering |
How to break step |
| March 24 | Itay Londner Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |
Tiling the integers with translates of one tile: the Coven-Meyerowitz tiling conditions (abstract) |
| March 31 | Darij Grinberg Drexel University |
From the Vandermonde determinant to generalized factorials to greedoids and back (abstract) |
| April 07 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and the Graduate Center |
Wild automorphisms and a problem of Mycielski (abstract) |
| April 14 | Giorgis Petridis University of Georgia |
On a question of Yufei Zhao on the interface of combinatorial geometry and combinatorial number theory (abstract) |
| April 21 | No meeting, Spring Break | |
| April 28 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and the Graduate Center |
Multiplicity interpolation and the theorems of Descartes and Budan-Fourier |
| May 05 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and the Graduate Center |
Polynomials and the Budan-Fourier theorem |
| May 12 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and the Graduate Center |
Sturm's theorem |
| Some weeks pass. | ||
| May 24-27 | Workshop in Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory (CANT 2022). It is expected that the meeting will be both in-person at the Graduate Center and available via Zoom. | |
| Some weeks pass. | ||
| June 09 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and the Graduate Center |
Fixed points of powers of permutations (abstract) |
| June 16 | Steven J. Miller Williams College |
Benford's Law: Why the IRS might care about the 3x+1 problem and zeta(s) (abstract) |
| June 23 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and the Graduate Center |
Arithmetic functions and fixed points of powers of permutations (abstract) |
| June 30 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and the Graduate Center |
Continuity of the roots of a polynomial (Uses only high school algebra. Joint with David Ross.) |
| July 07 | David Ross University of Hawaii |
Yet another proof that the roots of a polynomial depend continuously on the coefficients (Uses infinitesimals, nonstandard analysis) |
| July 14 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and the Graduate Center |
A nonstandard proof of continuity of affine varieties (abstract) |
| July 21 | Kevin O'Bryant CSI and GC (CUNY) |
On the size of finite Sidon sets (abstract) |
| July 28 | Ali Khan Johns Hopkins University |
Optimal chaotic dynamics, the checkmap and the 2-sector RSS model (abstract) |
| August 04 | Mel Nathanson Lehman College and the Graduate Center |
Patterns in the iteration of an arithmetic function (abstract) |
| Some weeks pass. | ||
| September 08 | To be announced | |
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