Illinois Number Theory Seminar : Spring 2012

Schedule of talks

Date

Speaker

Title

Thur, Jan 19

Kevin Ford (UIUC)

Values of Euler's function not divisible by a given prime and the
distribution of Euler-Kronecker constants for cyclotomic fields

Thur, Jan 26

Scott Ahlgren (UIUC)

Mock modular grids

Tues, Jan 31

James Sellers (Penn State Univ)

On m-ary Partitions and Non-Squashing Stacks of Boxes

Thur, Feb 2

Daniel Fiorilli (IAS Princeton)

On how the first term of an arithmetic progression can influence the
distribution of an arithmetic sequence

Thur, Feb 9

Jimmy Tseng (UIUC)

Bounded Luroth expansions

Thur, Feb 16

Youness Lamzouri (UIUC)

Conditional bounds for the least quadratic non-residue and the values of
L-functions at 1

Tues, Feb 21

Ben Brubaker (MIT)

Statistical mechanical models and L-functions

Thur, Mar 1

Xiannan Li (UIUC)

The least prime that does not split in a number field

Thur, Mar 15

Noam Elkies (Harvard)

On the areas of rational triangles

Tues, Mar 27

Vorrapan Chandee (CRM, University of Montreal)

Bounding S(t) via extremal functions

Thur, Mar 29

Florian Luca (Univ. Morelia, Mexico)

On the local behavior of the Ramanujan tau function

Tues, Apr 3

Benjamin Smith (INRIA Saclay and Ecole Polytechnique Paris)

Point counting on genus 2 curves with real multiplication

Thur, Apr 5

Jing-Jing Huang (Penn State Univ.)

Sums of unit fractions

Tues, Apr 10

Andrew Shallue (Illinois Wesleyan Univ)

A sieve strategy for irreducible tabulation

Thur, Apr 12

Hei-Chi Chan (Univ. Illinois at Springfield)

Some questions related to the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction

Tues, Apr 17

Atul Dixit (UIUC)

Generalized higher order spt-functions

Thur, Apr 19

Andrew Schultz (Wellesley College)

A generalization of the Gaussian Formula and q-analog of Fleck's congruence

Tues, Apr 24

Francesco Cellarosi (IAS/MSRI)

Ergodic Properties of Square-Free Numbers

Thur, Apr 26

Youness Lamzouri (UIUC)

Discrepancy bounds for the distribution of the Riemann zeta function

Tues, May 1

Alina Cojocaru (Univ. Illinois at Chicago)

Frobenius fields for elliptic curves