UIUC Number Theory Seminar, Spring 2014

 

Schedule of talks

Date

Speaker

Title

Thursday, Feb. 13

James Maynard (CRM/Univ. Montreal)

Small gaps between primes

Thursday, Feb. 20

Karl Dilcher (Dalhousie University)

Stern poynomials, continued fractions, and two theorems of Gauss

Thursday, Feb. 27

Krishnaswami Alladi (Univ. Florida)

Partitions with non-repeating odd parts - q-hypergeometric and combinatorial identities

Thursday, Mar. 6

Scott Ahlgren (UIUC)

Partition functions and mock theta functions modulo 2 and 3

Thursday, Mar. 13

Bogdan Petrenko (Eastern Illinois Univ.)

Generating an algebra from the probabilistic standpoint

Thursday, Mar. 20

Alexandru Zaharescu (UIUC)

Zeros of the Riemann zeta-function on the critical line

Thursday, Apr. 3

Armin Straub (UIUC)

Properties and applications of Apery-like numbers

Thursday, Apr. 17

Andrew Snowden (Univ. Michigan)

Integral structures on de Rham cohomology

Thursday, Apr. 24

Sergei Konyagin (Steklov Math. Institute, Moscow)

Multiplicative decomposition of arithmetic progressions in finite fields

Thursday, May 1

Sunil Chebolu (Illinois State University)

Some characterizations of Mersenne and 2-rooted primes