Workshop on the Interface of Probability and Number Theory

Program (revised 5/19/2000)

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Millennial Conference Program

All talks will be in Room 245 Altgeld Hall.

Friday, May 19
12:30 - 1:00 Registration in Room 245 Altgeld Hall
1:00 - 1:40 E. Manstavicius, Interaction between probabilistic number theory and probabilistic combinatorics
1:50 - 2:30 P.D.T.A. Elliott, The value distribution of sums of additive functions: Conjugate Problems
2:40 - 3:20 Jean-Marc Deshouillers, Additive number theory applied to the concentration function of the sum of i.i.d. random variables
Coffee and Tea
3:50 - 4:30 William Chen, Explicit constructions in the classical mean squares problem in irregularities of point distribution
4:40 - 5:20 Hugh Montgomery, Zeros of random polynomials

Saturday, May 20
9:00 - 9:40 Mike Kolountzakis, Randomization and constructibility in Number Theory and Fourier Analysis
Coffee and Tea
10:10 - 10:40 Michael Drmota, The Joint Distribution of $q$-Additive Functions
10:50 - 11:30 Gerald Tenenbaum, Local laws for divisors and squarefree integers without large prime factors
11:40 - 12:00 Van H. Vu, New concentration results and their applications in number theory
Lunch Break
1:00 - 1:40 J. Schoissengeier, The distribution of $(n\alpha)$
1:50 - 2:30 Robert Tichy, Normal numbers and metric discrepancy theory
2:40 - 3:10 Andrew Granville, Quadratic Excess
Coffee and Tea
3:00 - 5:00 Millennial Conference Registration
3:40 - 4:10 G. Jogesh Babu, Functional limit theory for processes generated by random permutations
4:20 - 5:00 Marc Yor, Probability laws related to the Jacobi theta and Riemann zeta functions, and Brownian excursions
8:00 - 10:00 Reception for Millennial Conference and Workshop participants at Levis Faculty Center