Discrete Analysis Seminar


2007-01-23 16:30: Growth in groups: an approach via incidence (Harald Helfgott (Bristol))

2007-01-30 16:30: A heat-flow approach to some multilinear inequalities in analysis (Jon Bennett (Birmingham))

2007-02-06 16:30: Sidon sets, quasi-independent sets and related issues in harmonic analysis (Jean-Pierre Kahane (Orsay))

2007-02-13 17:00: The local theory of metric spaces and graph algorithms (Professor A. Naor (Microsoft Research and Courant Institute))

2007-02-23 16:30: Malamud's extension of the Gauss-Lucas theorem (Keith Ball (University College, London))

2007-02-27 17:00: Quasirandom groups (Tim Gowers (Cambridge University))

2007-03-06 16:30: Primes with pre-assigned digits (Glyn Harman (Royal Holloway))

2007-03-12 16:30: The distribution of values of L-functions (K. Soundararajan (Stanford University))

2007-03-13 17:00: Multiplicative Functions (Professor K. Soundararajan (Stanford University))

2007-03-14 14:00: Some exponential diophantine equations involving products of integers (T. N. Shorey (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai))

2007-05-07 14:30: Arithmetic, combinatorial, and dynamic properties of sequences of integers (Yitzhak Katznelson (Stanford University))

2007-05-14 14:30: Linear configurations in uniform sets (Julia Wolf (Cambridge University))

2007-05-21 17:00: Diophantine equations after Wiles (Professor M. Bennett (University of British Columbia))

2008-01-22 16:00: Orbit counting for automorphisms of finite combinatorial rank (Thomas Ward, UEA Norwich)

2008-01-29 16:00: Selection of characters via empirical processes (Olivier Guedon, Jessieu)

2008-02-05 16:00: The Hasse Principle for systems of diagonal cubic equations (Trevor Wooley, Bristol)

2008-02-12 16:00: Uniformity norms on L^{infty} and applications (Bernard Host, Marne-le-Vallee)

2008-02-19 15:00: Exchangeable random variables and the
statistics of large graphs and hypergraphs (Tim Austin, UCLA)

2008-02-19 16:00: Multiplicative properties of sumsets and multiplicative properties of shifted sets
 (Christian Elsholtz, Royal Holloway)

2008-02-26 15:00: Concentration of idempotent exponential
polynomials (Szilard Revesz (Renyi Institute, Budapest))

2008-02-26 16:00: Manin's conjecture for a non-singular quartic del Pezzo surface (Tim Browning, Bristol)

2008-03-04 16:00: Sums of three kth powers (Roger Heath-Brown, University of Oxford)

2008-03-11 16:00: Circle Packings and Elliptic Curves (Edward Crane, Bristol)

2008-04-29 16:00: Free subgroups of linear groups and diophantine heights (Emmanuel Breuillard, Ecole Polytechnique)

2008-05-06 16:00: Wavelets, the Dual Tree and the Hilbert Transform -- from compression to
image analysis via shift invariance (Nick Kingsbury, Cambridge University Engineering Department)

2008-05-13 16:00: Ergodic theorems, spectral gap, and counting lattice points (Alex Gorodnik, Bristol)

2008-10-15 14:15: Open Problems, I (Ben Green (Cambridge))

2008-10-22 14:15: On the maximal number of 3-term progressions modulo p (Olof Sisask (Cambridge))

2008-10-29 14:15: Stein's method and the Erdos-Kac theorem (Adam Harper (Cambridge))

2008-11-05 14:15: NO SEMINAR (MSRI workshop on Discrete Rigidity Phenomena) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-11-12 14:15: Open Problems, II (Ben Green (Cambridge))

2008-11-19 14:15: Integer symmetric matrices and Lehmer's problem (Chris Smyth (Edinburgh))

2008-11-26 14:15: Expansions of real numbers in non-integer bases: arithmetic, combinatorics and dynamics (Nikita Sidorov (Manchester))

2008-12-03 14:15: Open Problems, III (Ben Green (Cambridge))

2009-01-23 16:30: Geometric Selection Theorems (Boris Bukh (UCLA))

2009-01-28 14:15: Simultaneous diophantine approximation by squarefree numbers (Rainer Dietmann (Bristol))

2009-02-04 14:15: Nathanson Heights in Finite Vector Spaces (Joshua Batson (Cambridge/Yale))

2009-02-11 14:15: Bohr and nil-Bohr sets (Bryna Kra (Northwestern/Paris))

2009-02-18 14:15: On sums of sets (Katalin Gyarmati (Eotvos Lorand, Budapest))

2009-03-05 16:30: Geometric Structure for Brascamp Leib Inequalities (Franck Barthe (Toulouse))

2009-03-06 16:30: Towards a calculus for nonlinear spectral gaps (Assaf Naor (Courant/Weizmann))

2009-10-16 16:30: Inverse theorem for the Gowers U(4) norm (Ben Green (University of Cambridge))

2009-10-26 16:00: The distribution of Hecke eigenvalues at Piatetski-Shapiro primes (Stephan Baier (University of Bristol))

2009-11-09 16:00: Sum-product inequalities and geometric incidence counting (Misha Rudnev (University of Bristol))

2009-11-23 16:00: Sum-product theorems for polynomials (Boris Bukh (University of Cambridge))

2010-02-03 14:00: A new proof of the density Hales-Jewett theorem (Timothy Gowers (University of Cambridge))

2010-02-10 14:00: A probabilistic approach to almost-periodicity in additive combinatorics (Olof Sisask (Queen Mary))

2010-02-17 14:00: Difference sets and nonnegative exponential sums (Máté Matolcsi)

2010-02-24 14:00: Combinatorial problems in finite fields and Sidon sets (Javier Cilleruelo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid))

2010-03-03 14:00: The distribution of fractional parts of sequences αn² (Roger Heath-Brown (University of Oxford))

2010-03-17 14:00: Some discrete inequalities in harmonic analysis (Anthony Carbery  (University of Edinburgh))

2010-10-12 16:00: Martingales and Multiplicative Functions (Adam Harper (University of Cambridge))

2010-10-12 17:30: Generalized Sidon sets (Carlos Vinuesa (University of Cambridge))

2010-10-26 16:00: Rank gradient and cost of groups (Nikolay Nikolov (Imperial College London))

2010-10-26 17:30: Uniformities for commuting maps (Thomas Ward (UEA Norwich))

2010-11-09 16:00: Linear correlations of the divisor function (Lilian Matthiesen (University of Cambridge))

2010-11-09 17:30: Zeros of the Riemann zeta-function (Hung Bui (University of Oxford))

2010-11-23 16:00: Solving linear equations in additive sets (Pablo Candela (University of Cambridge))

2010-11-23 17:30: Roth's theorem on arithmetic progressions (Tom Sanders (University of Cambridge))

2011-10-14 16:00: Counting Sidon Sets (Wojciech Samotij, Cambridge)

2011-10-21 16:00: The Mahler Conjecture on Convex Bodies (Matthew Tointon, Cambridge)

2011-10-28 16:00: Approximate groups (Ben Green, Cambridge)

2011-11-04 16:00: Counting magic squares of primes and removing elements in latin squares (Carlos Vinuesa (Cambridge))

2011-11-11 16:00: Why are bilinear forms important in analytic number theory? (Adam Harper, Cambridge)

2011-11-18 16:00: Polynomial sequences in groups and their projections on nilmanifolds (Pablo Candela Pokorna)

2011-11-25 16:00: Untitled (Boris Bukh (University of Cambridge))

2012-02-17 16:00: Refined Structure Theorems in Additive Combinatorics (Tom Sanders (University of Oxford))

2012-02-24 16:00: The structure of cubespaces attached to minimal distal dynamical systems (Yonatan Gutman (IHES))

2012-10-17 16:00: Effective bisector estimate for PSL(2,C) with applications to circle packings (Ilya Vinogradov, Bristol)

2012-10-24 14:30: Mean Dimension & Jaworski-type Theorems (Yonatan Gutman (Cambridge))

2012-10-24 16:00: Nivat's Conjecture and expansive dynamics (Bryna Kra, Northwestern University, Chicago)

2012-10-31 16:00: Nilpotent approximate groups (Matthew Tointon (Cambridge))

2012-11-07 16:00: Values taken by pairs of quadratc forms (Roger Heath-Brown, Oxford)

2012-11-14 16:00: On the dynamical Mordell-Lang conjecture (Par Kurlberg)

2012-11-21 16:00: Almost-prime k-tuples (James Maynard (Oxford))

2012-11-28 14:30: The width of a group (Nick Gill (Open University))

2012-11-28 16:00: Computing Dirichlet L-functions (Ghaith Hiary, Bristol)

2013-01-16 16:00: Primes, Polynomials and Random Matrices (Jon Keating, Bristol)

2013-01-23 16:00: Trace functions over finite fields (Emmanuel Kowalski, ETH)

2013-01-30 16:00: Polynomial configurations in the primes (Julia Wolf (Paris))

2013-02-06 16:00: Normal numbers and fractal measures (Pablo Shmerkin (Surrey))

2013-02-13 16:00: Norm convergence of nonconventional ergodic averages (Miguel Walsh (Buenos Aires))

2013-02-20 16:00: The inverse sieve problem (Miguel Walsh (Buenos Aires))

2013-02-27 16:00: Local dimensions, Bernoulli convolutions and self-affine measures (Thomas Jordan, University of Bristol)

2013-03-06 16:00: TBA (Neal Bez (Birmingham))

2013-03-13 16:00: Billiard on nilmanifolds and other stories (Eugene Gutkin, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)

2013-03-20 16:00: Brody curves and mean dimension (Masaki Tsukamoto (Kyoto))

2013-04-24 16:00: Restriction theory related to Waring's problem (Kevin Hughes (Edinburgh))

2013-05-01 16:00: Control of oscillatory integrals  by maximal operators (Jon Bennet (Birmingham))

2013-05-08 16:00: On a conjecture of Serre (Lillian Pierce (Oxford))

2013-05-22 16:00: On a problem of Erdős on similar copies of sequences in measurable sets (András Máthé, University of Warwick)

2013-06-11 14:00: Bounded gaps between primes (Special Lecture) (Ben Green (Cambridge))

2013-06-12 16:00: TBA (Sanju Velani, York)

2018-11-07 13:45: Correlations of multiplicative functions at almost all scales (Joni Teräväinen, University of Oxford)

2018-11-14 13:45: Matrix coefficients of finite groups (Ben Green, University of Oxford)

2018-11-21 13:45: Uniform Spectral Gaps and Paradoxical Decompositions: the Affine Plane (Lam Pham, Yale University)

2018-11-28 13:45: Higher-rank Bohr sets and multiplicative diophantine approximation (Niclas Technau, University of York)

2018-12-10 13:45: Bounds for sets lacking x,x+y,x+y^2 (Sarah Peluse, Stanford University)

2018-12-10 15:15: Non-proximal linear random walks on the torus (Weikun He, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2019-01-14 11:15:  WOMBL: Dimension of planar self-affine sets and measures (Ariel Rapaport (Cambridge))

2019-01-14 13:30: WOMBL: The minimum number of additive tuples in groups of prime order (Katherine Staden (Oxford))

2019-01-14 14:15: WOMBL: Partial Associativity in Latin Squares (Jason Long (Cambridge))

2019-01-14 15:30: WOMBL: The maximum of the Riemann zeta function on the 1-line (Winston Heap (UCL))

2019-01-14 16:15: WOMBL: Number fields with prescribed norms (Christopher Frei (Manchester))

2019-01-23 13:45: On a question of Babai and Sós, a model theoretic approach (Daniel Palacin (Freiburg))

2019-02-20 13:45: Is a random polynomial irreducible? (Dimitris Koukoulopoulos (Université de Montréal))

2019-03-06 13:45:  A Galois counting problem (Sam Chow (Oxford))

2019-03-13 13:45: An introduction to discrete approximate subgroups of Lie groups (Tobias Hartnick (Giessen, Germany))

2019-05-01 13:45: Prime number models, large gaps, prime k-tuples and the square-root sieve (Kevin Ford (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign))

2019-05-08 13:45: Random generation without CFSG (Sean Eberhard (G-Research))

2019-05-29 13:45: Sets without four term progressions but rich in three term progressions (Oliver Roche-Newton (RICAM, Linz, Austria))

2019-10-16 13:45: On a problem of J.E. Littlewood on flat polynomials (Julian Sahasrabudhe (University of Cambridge))

2019-10-23 13:45: Forbidden bipartite configurations in subsets of finite groups (Gabriel Conant (University of Cambridge))

2019-11-06 13:45: Modern applications of classical number theory (Cong Ling (Imperial College London))

2019-11-13 13:45: Volume growth, random walks and electric resistance in vertex-transitive graphs (Matthew Tointon (University of Cambridge))

2019-11-20 13:45: Approximation on the Cantor set and other related fractals (Demi Allen (University of Bristol))

2019-11-27 13:45: The Erdos Sumset Conjecture (Joel Moreira (University of Warwick))

2020-01-15 13:45: Kakeya maximal estimates via real algebraic geometry (Jonathan Hickman (Edinburgh))

2020-01-22 13:45: Stability of homomorphisms into symmetric groups (Oren Becker (Cambridge))

2020-02-19 13:45: On the size of subsets of F_p^n without p distinct elements summing to zero (Lisa Sauermann (Stanford University))

2020-02-26 13:45: Conformal dimension of fractal percolation (Ville Suomala (University of Oulu))

2020-03-04 13:45: On the diameters of p-groups (Henry Bradford, University of Cambridge)

2024-11-06 13:30: A Proto Inverse Szemerédi–Trotter Theorem (Olivine Silier (UC Berkeley))

2024-11-13 13:30: Subgroup tests and the Aldous-Lyons conjecture (Michael Chapman (NYU))

2024-11-20 13:30: Wave envelope estimates in Fourier restriction theory (Dominique Maldague (University of Cambridge))

2024-11-27 13:30: An inverse theorem for the Gowers U^3 norm relative to quadratic level sets (Sean Prendiville (Lancaster University))

2025-01-29 13:30: Lower bounds for incidences and Heilbronn's triangle problem (Dmitrii Zakharov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology))

2025-02-05 13:30: Cryptography, quantum computers and analytic number theory (Cédric Pilatte (University of Oxford))

2025-02-12 13:30: A model-theoretic approach to Roth's theorem (Amador Martin-Pizarro (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg))

2025-02-26 13:30: Intersections and embeddings of self-similar sets (Mike Hochman (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem))

2025-03-05 13:30: Lifting in special linear groups (Péter Varjú (University of Cambridge))

2025-03-12 13:30: Entropy in pointwise ergodic theory (Ben Krause (University of Bristol))

2025-04-30 13:30: Convergence for sparse graphs and representations (Tim Austin (University of Warwick))

2025-05-21 13:30: Random multiplicative functions and beyond (Max Xu (Courant Institute, NYU))

2025-05-28 13:30: Correlations of the Möbius function (Joni Teräväinen (University of Cambridge))

2025-06-11 13:30: A near-optimal quadratic Goldreich-Levin algorithm (Davi de Castro Silva (University of Cambridge))

2025-10-22 13:30: An exponential upper bound on induced Ramsey numbers (Marcelo Campos (IMPA))

2025-11-05 13:30: Spectral expansion in random regular graphs (Ewan Cassidy (University of Cambridge))

2025-11-11 16:00: Primes of the form p^2 + nq^2 (Mehtaab Sawhney (Columbia University))

2025-11-26 13:30: Polynomial bounds for Chowla's cosine problem (Benjamin Bedert (University of Cambridge))

2026-01-14 14:00: High-arity learning frameworks, an overview (Leonardo Coregliano (University of Chicago))

2026-01-14 14:45: Sample completion, Netflix Prize Competition and k-dependence (Leonardo Coregliano (University of Chicago))

2026-01-15 14:00: High-arity PAC learning (Leonardo Coregliano (University of Chicago))

2026-01-28 13:30: On the multiplication table problem (Ben Green (University of Oxford))

2026-02-04 13:30: Short character sums evaluated at homogeneous polynomials (Rena Chu (University of Göttingen))

2026-02-11 13:30: Finding the distribution of random multiplicative functions in short intervals (Adam Harper (University of Warwick))

2026-03-18 13:30: On the structure of infinite sumsets in the integers (Florian Richter (EPFL))

2026-03-25 13:30: Expansion, divisibility and parity (Harald Helfgott (CNRS--Jussieu))

2026-04-29 13:30: Title tbc (Marcel Goh (McGill University))

2026-06-03 13:30: Title tbc (Cosmin Pohoata (Emory))