2016 Schedule of Talks

All talks take place in the Monarch/Brigandine room (above the pool) at the Lighthouse Lodge and Cottages.

Friday, Dec 16

Opening Banquet:

5:30 pm: Drinks at the Point Pinos Grill
6:30 pm: Banquet dinner at the Point Pinos Grill

First Business Meeting:

8:00 pm: Monarch/Brigandine room, Lighthouse Lodge and Cottages

Saturday, Dec 17

Morning Chair: Renate Scheidler

9:00: Announcements
9:15: David Bailey: Computation of Mordell-Tornheim-Witten Sum Derivatives
9:35: Neville Robbins: Concerning the Conjugate of a Partition
9:55: Amy Feaver: A talk about “Euclidean Algorithms and Stuff”
10:15: Break
10:40: Nathan Green: Special L-Values in Drinfeld Modules
11:00: Bianca Thompson: On the Field of Definition of a Cubic Rational Function and its Critical Points
11:20: Pante Stanica: Bisecting Binomial Coefficients
11:40: Hongyan Wang: Fake Real Quadratic Orders
12:00: Lunch

Afternoon Chair: Kevin McGown

2:00: Announcements
2:15: Gary Walsh: Determining All Solutions to a Family of Simultaneous Pell Equations
2:35: Daniel Lautzenheiser: Thin groups and fractals
2:55: Liangyi (Lee) Zhao: Elliptic Curves in Isogeny Classes
3:15: Break
3:35: Andreas Weingartner: When Shifted Primes are Practical
3:55: Enrique Treviño: Resolving Grosswald’s conjecture using GRH

Problem Session:

4:15: Problem Session 1

Sunday Dec 18

Morning Chair: Bart Goddard

9:00: Announcements
9:15: Renate Scheidler: Hyperelliptic Curve Arithmetic
9:35: Russell Hendel: Tagiuri Generation Method of Fibonacci Identities
9:55: Carter Smith: Determining a Number Through its Sum of Divisors
10:15: Break
10:40: Alessandro Rezende de Macedo: Differential obstructions to rational points in projective curves
11:00: Sungjin Kim: The Average Number of Divisors of the Euler Function
11:20: Jongwoo Choi: Eisenstein Polynomials with Genus Number One
11:40: Kevin McGown: Heilbronn’s criterion in non-Galois cubic fields

Free Afternoon

Mon, Dec 19

Morning Chair: Amy Feaver

9:00: Announcements
9:15: Carl Pomerance: Euclidean prime generators
9:35: Andrew Shallue: Average liar counts for degree 2 Frobenius pseudoprimes
9:55: Simon Rubinstein-Salzedo: Reduction of dynatomic curves
10:15: Break
10:40: Nitya Mani: Infinite product exponents for modular forms
11:00: Amy Wooding: Ekedahl-Oort Stratifications of Unitary Shimura Varieties
11:20: Leanne Robertson: Coprime Mappings on n-Sets
11:40: Paul Young: A 2-adic View of Lehmer’s Interesting Series
12:00: Lunch

Afternoon Chair: Carter Smith

2:00: Announcements
2:15: Robert Akscyn: Problems Spaces: The final frontier
2:35: Christian Ballot: The p-adic valuation of Lucasnomials via carries
2:55: Gerry Myerson: Habegger’s work on Gaussian periods
3:15: Bart Goddard: New Bounds for Newman Polynomials.
3:35: Break

Problem Session and Second Business Meeting:

4:15: Second Business Meeting
4:45: Problem session 2

Tuesday, Dec 20

Historical Session:

9:30: 50th anniversary brainstorm
10:30-12:00 (Informal) Historical Session