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 2024 Schedule

Date Speaker Title
TBD Mohit Tripathi, Texas Tech University TBD

 

Spring 2024 Schedule

Date Speaker Title
March 26 Taylor Daniels, Purdue University Signed partition numbers
April 9 Dermot McCarthy, Texas Tech University Finite field hypergeometric functions and applications to graph theory
April 16 Robert Schneider, Michigan Tech University Multiplicative theory of integer partitions
April 23 Debanjana Kundu, UT Rio Grande Valley An analogue of Hilbert's 10th problem

 

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

Discrete 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 Sarıoğlank, 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