I was involved in organising JACKET: Junior Additive Combinatorics Kept Easy Talks. This seminar series does not currently exist but this page is maintained for historic reasons.
It is Junior since it is aimed at graduate students to learn the basics of the subject and have an opportunity to give talks to a small audience. It is Additive Combinatorics because that is an awesome subject. It is Kept Easy (in principle).
It is Junior since it is aimed at graduate students to learn the basics of the subject and have an opportunity to give talks to a small audience. It is Additive Combinatorics because that is an awesome subject. It is Kept Easy (in principle).
Previous talks (2010/11)
| 11th November: | A proof of the Green-Tao theorem part 1 by Thomas Bloom. |
| 17th November: | A proof of the Green-Tao theorem part 2 by Thomas Bloom. |
| 2nd December: | An ergodic proof of Szemeredi's theorem by Tim Jones. |
| 9th December: | The Furstenberg-Sarkozy theorem by Henry Reeve. (notes) |
| 26th January: | Sum-product estimates in the reals by Oliver Roche-Newton. |
| 3rd February: | JACKET POTATO: Plunnecke-Ruzsa Inequalities by Thomas Bloom. |
| 10th February: | FULL METAL JACKET: Sum-product estimates in finite fields by Tim Jones. |
| 17th February: | The hook length formula by Andrew Poulton. |
| 23rd February: | Roth's theorem by Mike Swarbrick Jones. |
| 3rd March: | An exposition of Roth's theorem in the primes by Eugen Keil. |
| 10th March: | Diamonds and GUNs (An introduction to Gowers Uniformity Norms) by Thomas Bloom. |
| 17th March: | A response to the criticisms of Mr. Poulton: Distinct distances and the Guth-Katz Theorem by Tim Jones. (Tim recommends the exposition on Terence Tao's blog). |
| 24th March: | Correlations and Theory by Tim Browning. (Starting a reading group about this paper by Lilian Matthieson.) |
| 31st March: | Growth in non-Abelian groups by Nick Gill. |
| 7th April: | Growth in SL_2(F_p) by Tim Jones. (a discussion of this paper by Helfgott) |
| 12th April: | Incidences in F_p via sum-product methods by Tim Jones. |
| 19th May: | Sum-product estimates in general finite fields by Oliver Roche-Newton. |
| 26th May: | Applications of algebra to combinatorics by Andrew Poulton. |
| 2nd June: | A paraboloid: a ubiquitous counter-example in geometric measure theory by Alex Iosevich. |
| 15th July: | Expanders and Growth by Tim Jones. |
| 3rd August: | The Croot-Sisask Probabilistic Method by Thomas Bloom. |
| 20th October: | Sum Sets and Energy I by Tim Jones. |
| 27th October: | Sum Sets and Energy II by Martin Dickson. |
| 3rd November: | Bohr Sets I by Eugen Keil. |
| 10th November: | Bohr Sets Part II by Alan Lee. |