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April 5-13, 2008
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Organizers: David Ellwood (CMI), Andrew Granville (Montreal), Bryna Kra (Northwestern), Izabella Laba (UBC), Trevor Wooley (Michigan)
| Audio and Slides of Talks | Workshop Schedule | Hotels and Housing |
| Boris Bukh link to photos of the Conference | Visitor Information | |
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Distinguished Lecture Series:
April 9,10,11, 2008 -- 3:30:p.m.
Tim Gowers, University of Cambridge
Invited Speakers:
| Tim Austin (University of California,
Los Angeles) Antal Balog (Renyi Institute) Vitaly Bergelson (Ohio State University) Jean Bourgain (IAS) Boris Bukh (Princeton University) Mei-Chu Chang (UC Riverside) Alina Cojocaru (Illinois-Chicago) Ernie Croot (Georgia Tech) Nikos Frantzikinakis (Memphis) Gregory Freiman (Tel Aviv University) Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University) Alexander Gamburd (UCSD) Weidong Gao (Nankai) Alexey Glibichuk (Moscow State University) Ron Graham (UCSD) Andrew Granville (U of Montreal) Ben Green (Cambridge University) Harald Helfgott (University of Bristol) Bernard Host (Marne-la-Vallee) Alex Iosevich (Missouri-Columbia) Mihalis Kolountzakis (Crete) |
Vsevolod Lev (Haifa) Yu-Ru Liu (U of Waterloo) Neil Lyall (University of Georgia) Akos Magyar (U of Georgia) Mate Matolcsi (Renyi Institute) Alex Samorodnitsky (Hebrew U) Tom Sanders (Cambridge-IAS) Chun-Yen Shen (Indiana University Bloomington) Ilya Shkredov (Moscow State) Jozsef Solymosi (UBC) Yonutz V. Stanchescu (Afeka College and Open University) Balazs Szegedy (Toronto) Endre Szemeredi (Rutgers University) Terry Tao (UCLA) Akshay Venkatesh (Courant) Van Vu (Rutgers University) Philip Matchett Wood (Rutgers University) Mate Wierdl (University of Memphis) Trevor Wooley (University of Bristol) Tamar Ziegler (Technion) |
SCHEDULE (tentative):
(Speakers Abstracts)
| Saturday, April 5 | |
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9:00-10:00
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Morning Coffee |
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10:00-10:45
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Andrew Granville (Montreal) |
| Coffee Break | |
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11:00-11:45
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Trevor Wooley (Bristol) |
| Lunch break | |
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2:00-2:20
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Alexey Glibichuk (Moscow State University) Additive properties of product sets in finite fields |
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2:30-2:50
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Philip Matchett Wood (Rutgers) Polynomial Frieman isomorphisms |
| Tea Break | |
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3:30-4:15
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Ron Graham (University of California, San
Diego) Some Ramsey results for the n-cube |
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4:30-5:15
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Alina Cojocaru (Illinois-Chicago) The Koblitz Conjecture on average |
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5:15-6:15
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Reception cash bar |
| Sunday, April 6 | |
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9:00-10:00
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Morning Coffee |
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10:00-10:45
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Vitaly Bergelson (Ohio State
University) Generalized polynomials and an Extension of the Polynomial Szemeredi Theorem |
| Coffee Break | |
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11:00-11:45
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Tamar Ziegler
(Technion) Polynomial patterns in primes |
| Lunch break | |
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2:00-2:20
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Yonutz Stanchescu (Open University of
Israel) (slides) On the exact structure of multidimensional sets with small doubling property |
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2:30-2:50
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Boris Bukh (Princeton University) Sums of dilates |
| Tea Break | |
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3:30-4:15
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Van Vu (Rutgers University) |
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4:30-5:15
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Yu-Ru Liu (University of Waterloo) Vinogradov's mean value theorem in function fields |
| Monday, April 7 | |
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9:00-10:00
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Morning Coffee |
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10:00-10:45
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Terry Tao (University of California, Los
Angeles) The Mobius-Nilsequences conjecture |
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10:45-11:00
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Coffee Break |
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11:00-11:45
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Alex Samorodnitsky (Hebrew
University) Low degree tests at large distances |
| Lunch break | |
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2:00-2:45
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Ernie Croot (Georgia Tech) On rich lines in grids |
| Coffee Break | |
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3:30-4:15
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Antal Balog (Renyi Institute) Trigonometric sums with multiplicative coefficients |
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4:30-5:15
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Mate Matolsci (Renyi Institute) |
| Tuesday, April 8 | |
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9:00-10:00
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Morning Coffee |
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10:00-10:45
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Terry Tao (University of California, Los Angeles) |
| Coffee Break | |
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11:00-11:45
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Alexander Gamburd (University of California, San Diego) |
| Lunch break | |
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1:30- 1:50
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Kevin Costello (IAS) |
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2:00-2:45
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Akshay Venkatesh (Courant) Random permutations in number theory |
| Tea Break | |
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3:30-4:15
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Vsevolod Lev (University of Haifa at Oranim) On the number of popular differences |
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4:30-5:15
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Gregory Freiman (Tel
Aviv University) On a detailed structure of sumsets and difference sets |
| Wednesday, April 9 | |
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9:00-10:00
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Morning Coffee |
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10:00-10:45
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Mei-Chu Chang (UC Riverside) |
| Coffee Break | |
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11:00-11:45
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Alex Iosevich (Missouri-Columbia) Distribution of dot products in vector spaces in finite fields and applications to problems in additive number theory and geometric combinatorics |
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12:00-1:30
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Lunch break |
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1:30-1:50
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Chun-Yen Shen (Indiana) Quantitative sum-product estimates |
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2:00-2:45
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Bernard Host (Marne-la-Vallee) Nilsequences in ergodic theory (joint work with B. kra) |
| Tea Break | |
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3:30-4:30
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Distinguished
Lecture Series: Timothy Gowers (Cambridge) Quadratic Fourier Analysis **NOTE **Location April 9: Bahen Building, Rm 1180 |
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4:30-6:00
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Reception at Fields for Timothy Gowers |
| Thursday, April 10 | |
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9:00-10:00
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Morning Coffee |
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10:00-10:45
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Harald Helfgott (University of Bristol) Growth in SL_3 |
| Coffee Break | |
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11:00-11:45
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Jean Bourgain (Institue for
Advanced Study) Invariant measures and stiffness for non Abelian actions on tori |
| Lunch break | |
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1:30-1:50
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Tim Austin (University of California, Los
Angeles) A very brief look at the Density Hales-Jewett Theorem |
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2:00-2:45
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Jaroslav Nesetril (Prague) |
| Tea Break | |
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3:30-4:30
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Distinguished
Lecture Series: Timothy Gowers (Cambridge) |
| Friday, April 11 | |
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9:00-10:00
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Morning Coffee |
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10:00-10:45
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Ben Green (Cambridge University) Exponential sums and Gowers Norms in finite field models |
| Coffee Break | |
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11:00-11:45
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Tom Sanders (Institute for
Advanced Study) Chowla's cosine problem in abelian groups |
| Lunch break | |
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1:30- 1:50
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Matthew Smith (University of Georgia) On solution-free sets for simultaneous additive equations |
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2:00-2:45
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Jean Bourgian (IAS) |
| Tea Break | |
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3:30-4:30
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Distinguished
Lecture Series: Timothy Gowers (Cambridge) Quadratic Fourier Analysis Location April 10: Fields Room 230 |
| Saturday, April 12 | |
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9:00-10:00
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Morning Coffee |
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10:00-10:45
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Jozsef Solymosi (University of British Columbia) |
| Coffee Break | |
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11:00-11:45
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Balazs Szegedy (University
of Toronto) The symmetry preserving regularity and removal lemmas |
| Lunch break | |
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2:00-2:45
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Neil Lyall (University of Georgia) Optimal polynomial return times |
| Tea Break | |
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3:30-4:15
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Mate Wierdl (Memphis) |
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4:30-5:15
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Nikos Frantzikinakis (Memphis) Szemerédi's theorem, Hardy sequences, and nilmanifolds |
| Sunday, April 13 | |
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9:00-10:00
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Morning Coffee |
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10:00-10:45
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Weidong Gao (Nankai University) Zero-sum Problems in Abelian Groups |
| Coffee Break | |
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11:00-11:45
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Mihalis Kolountzakis
(University of Crete) The discrepancy of a needle on a checkerboard |
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12:00-12:45
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Endre Szemeredi (Rutgers) |
Audio and Slides of Talks