Research: Number Theory
SERMON 2019
SERMON is a small, friendly, and informal gathering of number theorists and combinatorialists. Faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduate students are all invited to attend, and to give talks if they wish. The first SERMON took place at UNC Greensboro in 1988. Since then it has taken place every year at various universities in the southeast.
See the home page for the SouthEast Regional Meeting On Numbers for more general information on SERMON and to subscribe to the SERMON e-mail list.
In 2019 SERMON was held at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) Saturday April 13 and Sunday April 14.
Pre-SERMON Colloquium
Friday April 12 at 4:30 pm in Petty 150. Refreshments at 4:00 pm in Petty 116.
- Jürgen Klüners (Paderborn University): Constructive Galois theory (database)
Invited Plenary Speakers
- Samit Dasgupta (Duke University)
- Harold G. Diamond (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Holly Swisher (Oregon State University)
Invited Graduate Student Speaker
- Alexander Dunn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Practical Information
You can find directions on the For Visitors page of our department. There is also a list of restaurants.
Parking
On Saturday parking is free at UNCG because of the Science Everywhere event. McIver Street Parking Deck is closest to the Moore Nursing building (NMOR). It is on the north side of campus and its GPS address is 200 McIver Street.
From 5 PM Friday through midnight Sunday vehicles may park in valid B/C/VB surface parking lot parking spaces without a permit. See the parking map:
https://parking.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/CampusParkingMap2018-2019.pdf
Travel Support
SERMON has a limited budget from which to provide support for travel. In order to stretch our budget, we encourage car pooling and students to share lodging as much as possible.
If you have requested travel support fill out the VisitorExpensesSERMON2019 and send it to Matt Boylan by email (boylan@math.sc.edu) or U.S Mail (Matt Boylan, Mathematics Department, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208).
Schedule
The talks on Saturday and Sunday will take place in room 130 of the Moore Nursing Building (NMOR) which is located right behind the Petty building. Hover over or touch the title of a talk to see the abstract.
Friday
| 16:00 | Refreshments (in Petty 116) |
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| 16:30 | Jürgen Klüners: Constructive Galois theory (in Petty 150) |
After Jürgen’s talk we will go to the Old Town Draught House at 1205 Spring Garden St which is a few minutes form the Petty building on foot. You are welcome to join us there (also if you cannot make the talk).
Saturday
| 9:30 | Samit Dasgupta: On the Brumer-Stark conjecture, its refinements, and Hilbert’s 12th problem |
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| 10:30 | Coffee |
| 11:00 | Jon Grantham: Brazilian primes |
| 11:30 | Sungkon Chan: The space of convolution identities |
| 12:00 | Sandi Rudzinski: Digits of discriminants of Eisenstein Polynomials as invariants of local fields |
| 12:30 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 | Alexander Dunn: Maass forms and Ramanujan’s third order mock theta function |
| 15:00 | Coffee |
| 15:30 | Bo Zhang: Analysis of a Differential-Difference Equation arising in Number Theory |
| 16:00 | Michael Filaseta: An explicit dense universal Hilbert set |
| 16:30 | Coffee |
| 17:00 | Holly Swisher: Quantum Modular Forms |
Sunday
| 9:30 | Harold Diamond: Some statistics of the Euler phi function |
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| 10:30 | Coffee |
| 11:00 | Christophe H Dethier: A Reduction Theory for Diagonalizable Forms |
| 11:30 | Miao (Pam) Gu: Factorization tests and algorithms arising from counting modular forms and automorphic representations |
| 12:00 | Harsh Mehta: Counting number fields with Galois group containing a normal abelian subgroup |
| 12:30 | Closing for Lunch |
Participants
Komal Agrawal (University of Georgia)
Chen An (Duke University)
Michael Cerchia (Wake Forest University)
Sungkon Chang (Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus)
Samit Dasgupta (Duke University)
Christophe Dethier (University of Oregon)
Harold Diamond (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Alexander Dunn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
George Enell (Arch MI, Model Risk Officer)
Michael Filaseta (University of South Carolina)
Michael Freeze (UNC Wilmington)
David Gill (Wake Forest University)
Jon Grantham (IDA/CCS)
Miao (Pam) Gu (Duke University)
Jürgen Klüners (Paderborn University)
Cole Love (UNCG)
Thomas Luckner (University of South Carolina)
Harsh Mehta (University of South Carolina)
Jonathan Milstead (UNCG)
Michael Mossinghoff (Davidson College)
Alexis Newton (Wake Forest University)
Holly Paige Chaos (Wake Forest University)
Kate Powell (UNCG)
Jeremy Rouse (Wake Forest Universeity)
Sandi Rudzinski (UNCG)
Demmas Salim (University of South Carolina)
Holly Swisher (Oregon State University)
Kalani Thalagoda (UNCG)
Zack Tripp (Vanderbilt University)
Cuyler Warnock (University of South Carolina)
Haochen Wu (Wake Forest University)
Hui Xue (Clemson University)
Bo Zhang (Fayetteville State University)
Daozhou Zhu (Clemson University)
Dena Zhu (Duke University)
Local Organizers
Sebastian Pauli, Filip Saidak, Brett Tangedal, Dan Yasaki
Other Contacts
- Clemson: Kevin James, Hui Xue
- USC: Matthew Boylan, Michael Filaseta, Frank Thorne
Acknowledgements
SERMON 2019 is supported by the NSF and UNCG.
