2002 Illinois Number Theory Conference
May 17/18, 2002
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/nt02


Thursday, 5/16/2002

8:00 pm PRE-CONFERENCE PARTY IN ROOM 321 ALTGELD HALL

Friday, 5/17/2002

Morning Session, Room 314 Altgeld Hall

8:00 BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION
8:30 David Bradley, Multiple polylogarithms and multiple zeta values---a survey
9:30 Friedrich Littman, Entire function majorants
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:30 Florin Boca, Topics on the distribution of Farey fractions
11:00 Alan Haynes, Farey fractions with odd denominators
11:30 Yung-Pin Chen, Making coprimality more likely
12:00 Lyman Opie and Conrad Eaton, Comets: Goldbach, Levy, and Beyond!

Afternoon Session, Room 314 Altgeld Hall

1:30 Harold Diamond, A survey of Beurling generalized number theory
2:00 Hugh Montgomery, Beurling primes with large oscillation
2:30 Ulrike Vorhauer, Greedy sums of distinct squares
3:00 COFFEE BREAK
3:30 Gennady Bachman, Coefficients of ternary cyclotomic polynomials
4:00 Dennis Eichhorn, Combinatorial proofs for colorful partition congruences
4:30 Heekyoung Hahn, Septic analogues of the Rogers-Ramanujan functions
5:00 Wen-Bin Zhang, Mean value theorems for multiplicative functions via Halasz' method
6:30 BANQUET AT LEVIS FACULTY CENTER

Saturday, 5/18/2002

Morning Session, Room 314 Altgeld Hall

8:00 BREAKFAST
8:30 Jeff Vaaler, Problems and results about Mahler's measure
9:30 Ken Stolarsky, Factorization and discriminants of multivariate polynomials
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:30 Doug Hensley, Simultaneous Diophantine approximation and surprise ellipses
11:00 Kiryl Tsishchanka, On the approximation of real numbers by algebraic numbers of bounded degree
11:30 Jaroslav Hancl, Liouville Sequences
12:00 Mario Lamberger, On a family of singular measures related to Minkowski's $?(x)$-function

Afternoon Session, Room 314 Altgeld Hall

1:30 Peter Elliott, On primes and powers of a fixed integer
2:00 Liangyi Zhao, The large sieve with quadratic moduli
2:30 Kevin Ford, Distinct products in a multiplication table
3:00 COFFEE BREAK
3:30 George Grossman, On linear recurrence relations and combinatorial identities
4:00 Robert Osburn, Tame kernels and 4-rank densities
4:30 W.A. Zuniga-Galindo, Computation of Igusa's local zeta functions, trees, and one-way functions

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