SouthEastern
Regional Meeting on Numbers
Wofford College
April 27-28, 2024
The SouthEastern Regional Meeting on Numbers (SERMON) is a
series of conferences in number theory held annually at colleges and universities
in South Carolina and neighboring states.
It is held in coordination with PANTS, a similar
conference held twice in the fall of every year. The core members of the PANTS consortium
are Clemson University and the University
of South Carolina.
We are grateful
for support from the National Science Foundation, the National Security Agency,
the Provost’s Office at Wofford College,
and the Mathematics Department
at Wofford College.
Registration
To
register for the conference, please click the link below:
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If
you wish to give a talk, please submit it by April 22. Please submit funding requests by April
19.
A form
for requesting support is
available, and copies will be available at the conference too. Please complete
the form and submit it with your receipts at the conference, or shortly
thereafter.
Speakers
- Lola
Thompson, University of Utrecht, Plenary Speaker
- Alex
Cowan, Harvard University, Postdoc Plenary Speaker
- Esme
Rosen, LSU, Graduate Student Plenary Speaker
Schedule
All talks will be in Olin 101. Olin is building #10 on the campus map.
Saturday
10:00 Robert (Scotty) Groth, “Newton Polygons and the Irreducibility of Legendre Polynomials”
10:30 Swati, “Congruence properties modulo prime powers for a class of partition functions”
11:15
Lola Thompson, “Preimages of
the sum of proper divisors function”
2:15 Esme Rosen, “Symmetries of Hypergeometric
Functions and Modular Forms”
3:30 Frank Thorne, TBA
4:00 Wojciech Tralle, “Almost strong approximation in algebraic tori”
4:45 Erick Ross, “Eigenbasis Decomposition of Hecke Eigenform Products via the Rankin-Selberg Method”
Sunday
9:30 Stevo Bozinovski, “A new property of the Pascal Triangle”
10:15 Alex Cowan, “A twisted additive divisor
problem”
11:30 Tianyu Ni, “Linear independence of periods for the symmetric square $L$-functions”
12:00 Tom Wright, “Further adventures in Siegel zeroes”
Abstracts
Travel,
Parking, and Conference Location
- Wofford College is located 60 miles southwest of downtown
Charlotte and 30 miles northeast of Greenville, SC. The campus is located just off of
the I-85 Business Loop; it is about a mile south of Exit 4 off of I-85BL.
- The closest airports are Charlotte Douglas International Airport
(CLT), which is one hour away, and Greenville-Spartanburg Airport (GSP),
which is 30 minutes away. Of
the two, Greenville likely has more options for ground transportation to
Wofford.
- Campus
map and directions. Since the conference will be held on a weekend,
all parking spots should be available, but lots P1, P2, and P4 are closest
to the conference.
- Conference talks will be held in the Olin Building, which is
building number 10 on the map above.
Lodging
If you plan to
request support, please share accommodations so that we can make the best use
of grant funding.
Wofford maintains
a list of hotels within reasonable distance from campus. Here
it is.
Coffee and Dining
- There is a coffee shop in the Campus Life Building (which is 13 on
the map above) and another one in the Milliken Science Center (17 on the
map).
- Wofford has a slightly
outdated (i.e. from 2021) list of dining near campus.
Other Information
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Last modified April 8, 2024.