2021 Schedule of Talks

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Thu, Dec 16, 2021

8:00a: Coffee / Test Your Connection
8:30a-10:00a: Session Chair: Shanna Dobson
- Helen G. Grundman: A Brief Pre-History of Happy – Numbers and Generalized Happy Numbers
- Shanna Dobson: Diamond L-Groups and Diamond Modular Curve
- Shaoyun Yi: On dimension formulas of Siegel modular forms of level 4
- Community Session: I am not OK: Tales from the pandemic (moderator: Kjell Wooding)
10:00a-11:15a: Break
11:15a-11:30a: Test Your Connection
11:30a-1:00p: Session Chair: Sarah Arpin
- Evan M. O’Dorney: Reflection theorems for integer forms
- William Haynie Rowan: Valuations More Generally
- Laura Hall-Seelig: When Happiness Becomes Complex: Gaussian Happy Numbers
- Problem Session 1
1:00p-2:30p: Session Chair: Shaoyun Yi
- Duncan Buell: A Parameterized Family of Quadratic Class Groups with 3-Sylow Subgroups of Rank at Least Three
- Zack Baker: Constructive Orderings: Novel Structure from Ordered Groups
- Sarah Arpin: Supersingular Elliptic Curve Isogeny Graphs with Level Structure
- Community Session: Creating a vibrant and inclusive community (Moderator: Amy Wooding)
4:00p-6:00p: Happy Hour
- Popup Topics

8:00a: Coffee / Test Your Connection
8:30a-10:00a: Session Chair: Amy Wooding
- Matilde N Lalin: Sums of certain arithmetic functions over function fields and symplectic distributions
- Johann Thiel: Solving the membership problem for certain subgroups of SL_2(Z)
- David Kogan: On The Average Coherence of Cyclotomic Lattices
- Community Session: Having a Life (Moderator: Eva Goedhart)
10:00a-10:30: Break, Test Your Connection
10:30a-12:00a: Session Chair: Jon Grantham
- Vaishavi Sharma: Arithmetic properties of the divisor function
- Maxwell Forst: Counting the number of basis extensions of a lattice.
- Gary Walsh: Integers as a sum of three cubes
- Problem Session 2
12:00p-4:00: Free Afternoon
4:00p-6:00p: Happy Hour
- Popup Topics

8:00a: Coffee / Test Your Connection
8:30a-10:00a: Session Chair: Kjell Wooding
- Raghavendra N Bhat: Distribution of Square-Prime (SP Numbers)
- Jon Grantham: Integers whose sum is the reverse of their product
- Russell Jay Hendel: Unexpected Limiting Behaviors of Triangular Labeled Graphs Representing Electrical Circuits
- Problem Session 3
10:00a-11:30a: Break
11:30a-1:00p: Session Chair: Raghavendra N Bhat
- Sungjin Kim: On the equations phi(n) = phi(n + k) and phi(p – 1) = phi(q – 1)
- Bella Tobin: Applications of Belyi Maps in Arithmetic Dynamics
- Community Session: Beyond traditional Careers in Math (Moderator: Amy Wooding)
1:00p-1:30p: Break
1:30p-2:30p: Wrap-up
- Second Business Meeting
- Awards, Thank-yous & Tearful Farewells