The Baltimore Number Theory Seminar has existed since the fall of 2015. The current core group consists of Vefa Goksel, Angel Kumchev, and Nathan McNew; other colleagues have also expressed interest in joining us in the future. For the time being, we are planning to meet at 5 pm on Tuesdays in YRÂ 320. If you are interested in giving a talk or joining us as a permanent member, feel free to contact Angel or Nathan.
Below is the list of talks from the recent past.
2024-2025
| Aug. 20 | Expansion, divisibility and parity (Harald Helfgott, Paris-VI/VII) |
| Sept. 10 | All trees on \(n\) edges decompose the complete bipartite graph \(K_{n,n}\) (Edinah Gnang, Johns Hopkins) |
| Sept. 17, 24 | New bounds for large values of Dirichlet polynomials, Part 1** (James Maynard, Oxford) |
| Oct. 29, Nov. 19 |
New bounds for large values of Dirichlet polynomials, Part 2** (Larry Guth, MIT) |
| Nov. 21 | On disjoint covering systems (Alex Kalogirou, South Carolina) |
| Dec. 3 | Minimum spectral radius in a given class of graphs (Vishal Gupta, Delaware) |
* Mathematics Colloquium talk
**YouTube rerun
2023-2024
| Sept. 29 | Misiurewicz polynomials and dynamical units (Vefa Goksel, Towson) |
| Oct. 20 | Small fractional parts of real quadratic forms (Angel Kumchev, Towson) |
| Oct. 27 | Introduction to arithmetic dynamics (Vefa Goksel + BNT, Towson) |
| Nov. 3, 9, 16 | Introduction to arithmetic dynamics (Vefa Goksel + BNT, Towson) |
| Feb. 8 | The abc conjecture** (Jeff Vaaler, UT Austin) |
| Mar. 14 | Preimages of the sum of proper divisors function (Lola Thompson, Utrecht) |
| Apr. 21 | The middle prime factor of integers* (Nathan McNew, Towson) |
| Apr. 24 | Arboreal Galois groups: Introduction* (Robert Benedetto, Amherst College) |
| Apr. 25 | Arboreal Galois groups with colliding critical points (Robert Benedetto, Amherst College) |
* Mathematics Colloquium/Seminar talk
**YouTube rerun
2020-2021
| Nov. 6 | On a dense universal Hilbert set* ** (Michael Filaseta, S. Carolina) |
| Nov. 20 | Special values of L-functions with periodic coefficients** (Siddhi Pathak, Penn State) |
| Apr. 23 | Sums of squares of the k-nacci numbers (Russell Hendel, Towson) |
| May 7 | Studying graphs associated with groups* ** (Mark Lewis, Kent State) |
| May 14 | Recent results in discrete harmonic analysis* (Angel Kumchev, Towson) |
| May 28 | Asymptotics of restricted partition functions** (Ayla Gafni, Mississippi) |
| July 16 | Bohr sets in Diophantine approximation** (Sam Chow, Warwick) |
* Mathematics Colloquium/Seminar talk
**Virtual talk
2019-2020
| Sept. 6 | Enumerations of restricted Dumont permutations (Opel Jones, Towson) |
| Sept. 20 | Counting pattern-avoiding integer partitions (Nathan McNew, Towson) |
| Oct. 4 | Patterns in permutations* (Alexander Burstein, Howard University) |
| Oct. 18 | Unimodal permutations and characters of the symmetric group* (Kassie Archer, UT-Tyler) |
| Nov. 8 | Sums of powers of primes: The Waring-Goldbach problem and its variants (Angel Kumchev, Towson) |
| Feb. 14 | Newton polygons and irreducibility in \(\mathbb Q[x]\) (Angel Kumchev, Towson) |
| Feb. 28 | Recursive triangles embedded in recursive families (Russell Hendel, Towson) |
| Mar. 6 | Factoring RSA230, 49598666989151226098104244512918, and broader trends in cryptography* (Samuel Gross, Noblis Inc.) |
| Apr. 17 | Non-standard dice games: Multiset combinatorics and cyclotomic polynomials** (Timothy Clark, Loyola-MD) |
| May 1 | Ideals and congruences for the natural numbers** (Keith Pardue) |
| May 8 | Fun with Dyck and Jim** (Jonathan Farley, Morgan State) |
| May 22 | Lattice point distributions: Encounters with analysis and number theory** (Tess Anderson, Purdue) |
| June 12 | Discrete restriction estimates** (Kevin Hughes, Bristol) |
| June 19 | Recursive triangles embedded in recursive families, II** (Russell Hendel, Towson) |
| July 3 | Diameter free estimates for Vinogradov systems** (Akshat Mudgal, Purdue) |
| July 10 | The irreducibility criteria of polynomials with non-negative coefficients and prime values** (Jacob Juillerat, South Carolina) |
| July 31 | Flip graphs** (Sebastian Cioaba, Delaware) |
* Mathematics Colloquium talk
**Virtual talk