Atkin
Memorial Lecture and Workshop
Expansion in Linear Groups
University of Illinois at Chicago
May 1 through May 3 , 2015
A.O.L (Oliver) Atkin,
a noted mathematician of international fame and professor emeritus at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, died on December 23, 2008 at the age of 83.
He made lasting contributions to the theory of numbers: the theory of modular
forms (Atkin-Lehner operators, congruences,
modular forms for non-congruences groups), theory of
partitions, and cryptography (Schoof-Elkies-Atkin
Algorithm), among others. He was also a pioneer of the use of computers in
mathematics. He was born in England and worked at Bletchley Park in World War
II. He completed his doctorate at Cambridge in 1952 under John Littlewood. He joined the faculty at the University of
Illinois at Chicago in 1972. Atkin remained
mathematically active until his death.
The annual Atkin Memorial Lecture is aimed at
remembering Oliver Atkin's lasting contributions to
mathematics and the University of Illinois. The previous speakers are Ken Ono
(2009), Steve Kudla (2010), Winnie Li (2011),William Stein (2012), Akshay Venkatesh (2013), and Shouwu
Zhang (2014). This year Alireza Salehi-Golsefidi
of University of California—San Diego will give the Atkin
Lecture on Friday May 1, 2015 at 3 PM. The lecture will be followed by a two day workshop with the same title as the lecture. The
theme of the workshop is expansion in linear groups.
Please scroll down down for important details
regarding funding.
Speakers
Remi Boutonnet (UCSD)
Elena Fuchs
(UIUC)
Alex
Furman (UIC)
Alex Gamburd (CUNY)
Harald Helfgott (CNRS Paris VI/VII)
Alex Kontorovich (Rutgers)
Igor Rivin (Temple)
Alireza Salehi-Golsefidi (UCSD)
Nicolas
de Saxce (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Funding
The workshop is funded by the NSF. As soon as you see this announcement, if you are interested in attending the workshop, please fill out the registration form available here. Students should ask their advisor to send a short letter of support to rtakloo at math.uic.edu. Women, underrepresented minorities, and young mathematicians are strongly encouraged to apply.
Schedule
Friday,
May 1
|
3 PM |
Alireza Salehi Golsefidy |
Expansion in linear groups and its
applications |
|
4:15 PM |
Reception |
SEO 300 |
|
5:00 |
Harald Helfgott |
Ternary Goldbach
Conjecture |
|
7:00 |
Dinner |
If you would like to join us for
dinner, please send an email to rtakloo@math.uic.edu |
Saturday,
May 2 (SEO 636)
|
9 AM |
Alax Gamburd |
Markoff triples and strong approximation |
|
10:15 AM |
Alex Furman |
Lattice envelopes for countable
groups |
|
11:30 AM |
Remi Boutonnet |
Spectral gap for
translation actions on locally compact groups |
|
2:30 PM |
Elena Fuchs |
Generic thinness and freeness in
subgroups of SL_n(Z) |
|
3:30 PM |
Coffee Break |
SEO 300 |
|
4:00 PM |
Harald Helfgott |
On growth in subgroups |
Sunday,
May 3 (SEO 636)
|
10:15 AM |
Alireza Salehi-Golsefidy |
Expansion in linear groups |
|
11:30 AM |
Alex Kontorovich |
Homogeneous
dynamics and thin groups |
|
2:30 PM |
Igor Rivin |
|
|
3:30 PM |
Coffee Break |
SEO 300 |
|
4:00 PM |
Nicolas de Saxce |
Hausdorff dimension of products sets |
Organizers:
Ramin Takloo-Bighash and Alireza Salehi-Golsefidi
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