Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar

Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar

UT Tyler

The UT Tyler Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar meets weekly via Zoom. If you are interested in attending or presenting, please email Prof. Maddie Dawsey at mdawsey@uttyler.edu.

Fall 2023 Schedule

Date

Speaker

Title

August 29   

Rahul Kumar

Penn State University

Kronecker limit formulas and associated special functions

September 19

Michael Hanson

University of North Texas

Ramanujan congruences for overpartitions with restricted odd differences

September 26

Badri Pandey

University of Cologne

Biases among classes of rank-crank partitions (mod 11)

October 3

Hannah Burson

University of Minnesota

Hook length bias in odd versus distinct partitions

October 10

Dana Neidmann and Pierce Mason

Centre College

Cycles in directed graphs from natural exact covering systems

October 17

Joshua Stucky

University of Georgia

The average number of divisors of gcd(n,\phi(n))

October 24

Avi Mukhopadhyay

University of Florida

Combinatorial Proof of an Identity of Berkovich and Uncu

October 31

Grace Jaffe

Oberlin College

Bound and Rebound: A Tragicomedy in n ≥ 4 Parts

November 7

Matthew Kroesche

Texas A&M University

Low-Lying Zeros of a Thin Family of Automorphic L-Functions in the Level Aspect

November 14

Walter Bridges

University of Cologne

Methods in asymptotic statistics for partitions

Spring 2023 Schedule

Date

Speaker

Title

January 31

Eleanor McSpirit

University of Virginia

Zeros in the character tables of symmetric groups with l-core index

February 6

Hunter Handley

Baylor University

Disrete m-functions with Doubly Palindromic Continued Fraction Coefficients

February 13

Hasan Saad

University of Virginia

New results in arithmetic statistics

February 20

Emily Heath

Iowa State University

The Erdos-Gyarfas problem on generalized Ramsey numbers

February 27

Boya Wen

Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute

Green's functions for local systems over graphs

March 6

Katie Anders

UT Tyler

Early results on which integers can be written as quotients of sums of distinct powers of three

April 10

Maria Del Rosario Valencia Arevalo

UT Rio Grande Valley

Congruences for quotients of Rogers-Ramanujan functions

Fall 2022 Schedule

Date

Speaker

Title

September 12

Jackson Morrow

UC Berkeley

Sporadic cubit torsion

September 20

Joseph Vandehey

UT Tyler

Digital problems in partitions

September 27           

Victor Souza

Cambridge University

Blowup Ramsey numbers

October 4

Samuel Saunders

UT Tyler

Sequentially congruent partitions and partition ideals

October 11

Noah Lebowitz-Lockard

UT Tyler

On the ratio between two factorization functions

October 25

Samet Sarıoğlan

Hacettepe University

The universal difference property on complete graphs

November 1

Lea Beneish

UC Berkeley

Degree d points on plane curves

November 8

Ankush Goswami

UT Rio Grande Valley

Asymptotics and sign patterns for coefficients in expansions of Habiro elements

November 15

Jeremiah Bartz               

University of North Dakota

A balancing partition game

Spring 2022 Schedule

Date

Speaker

Title

January 20 

Maddie Dawsey

UT Tyler

A new partition statistic and applications 

January 27

Jena Gregory

UT Rio Grande Valley

Iterated generalized Rascal triangles

February 3

Tim Huber

UT Rio Grande Valley

Ramanujan type congruences, polytopes, and Klein forms 

February 10 

Joseph Vandehey

UT Tyler

Continued fractions...in the octonions!?

February 17

Anna Weigandt

MIT

The Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of matrix Schubert varieties

February 24 

Florin Boca

UIUC

Distribution of reduced quadratic irrationals

March 3

Hannah Burson

University of Minnesota

A new family of partition-theoretic objects

March 17

Hayan Nam

Duksung Women's University 

Several types of core partitions and related objects

March 24

Nick Andersen

Brigham Young University

The Hardy-Ramanujan-Rademacher formula for the partition function

March 31

Ryan Moruzzi

Cal State East Bay

Zero forcing and graph complements

April 14

Michael Penn

Randolph College

Vertex operator algebras and permutations

April 21

Simone Sisneros-Thiry

Cal State East Bay

Refined counting of core partitions into d-distinct parts

April 28

Andrew Alaniz

UT Rio Grande Valley

Some new analogies in the local Langlands program

Fall 2021 Schedule

Date

Speaker

Title

September 2 

Brandt Kronholm 

UT Rio Grande Valley

The unimodularity of Gaussian polynomials  

September 9 

Katie Anders

UT Tyler

Graphs admitting only constant splines over ℤ_m 

September 16  

Joseph Vandehey 

UT Tyler

Borel complexity of continued fraction normal, absolutely abnormal numbers 

September 23 

Dana Neidinger

UIUC

Directed graphs from exact covering systems and non-standard digital representations of integers

September 30                  

Jeremiah Bartz

University of North Dakota

Good things come in threes

October 7

Rahul Kumar

Indian Institute of Technology

Theory of a zeta function arising from modular relations

October 14  

Claire Merriman

Ohio State

Cutting sequences of Lehner and Farey expansions

October 21 

Samet Sarıoğlan

Hacettepe University                 

Generalized splines over principal ideal domains

October 28

Grace Jaffe

UIUC

A Frobenius perspective on the Stern sequence

November 4

Ankush Goswami

Indian Institute of Technology

Partial theta series with periodic coefficients and quantum modular forms

November 11

W.A. Zuniga-Galindo

UT Rio Grande Valley

Local zeta functions and string amplitudes, Part I

November 18

W.A. Zuniga-Galindo

UT Rio Grande Valley

Local zeta functions and string amplitudes, Part II