Mathematics 542: current and upcoming topics

Date Topics
Sept 3 Introduction to Fourier analysis
Sept 5-10 Roth's theorem: background and proof
Sept 12 Varnavides's theorem
Sept 15 Behrend's example
Sept 17-19 Weyl equidistribution and Weyl differencing
Sept 21-Oct 3Freiman's theorem
Oct 6-8 Balog-Szemerédi-Gowers theorem
Oct 10-17 Gowers norms and Gowers uniformity
Oct 20-27 Szemeredi's theorem for 4-term progressions
Oct 29The Green-Tao theorem: an introduction
Oct 31- Nov 10Roth's theorem in sparse sets
Nov 12-17The Green-Tao theorem: selected parts of the proof
Coming up nextThe inverse Gowers norm conjecture