Schedule: There will be four one hour invited lectures starting at 10AM and ending around 5:30PM.  A more detailed schedule will be posted soon.

Speakers: Aaron Landesman (Harvard University), Michelle Manes (University of Hawaii), Holly Swisher (Oregon State University), Stanley Xiao (University of Northern British Columbia)

Lightning Talks: We are planning a session where number theory graduate students and postdocs are invited to present their research. These talks will be approximately 5-10 minutes.  If you would like to give a lightning talk, please contact Nathan Kaplan by September 9. Please include your name, affiliation, advisor's name, talk title, and a brief abstract.

Registration: There is no registration fee for the conference, but to help our planning please register.

Location: Natural Sciences II, room 1201 (building 402, located at G6 on this map).

Travel support: Some travel funding is available for participants, with preference given to graduate students and postdocs, especially those giving lightning talks. We also encourage applications from members of under-represented groups. If you would like to apply for funding, please contact Nathan Kaplan with an itemized estimate of expenses, preferably by September 16. Please include your name, affiliation, and advisor's name (if applicable). We strongly encourage carpooling.

Dinner: There will be a conference dinner.  Details TBD.

(Joint with O. Gorodetsky and B. Rodgers) It is a classical quest in analytic number theory to understand the fine-scale distribution of arithmetic sequences such as the primes. For a given length scale h, the number of elements of a ``nice'' sequence in a uniformly randomly selected interval $(x,x+h], 1 \leq x \leq X$, might be expected to follow the statistics of a normally distributed random variable (in suitable ranges of $1 \leq h \leq X$).  Following the work of Montgomery and Soundararajan, this is known to be true for the primes, but only if we assume several deep and long-standing conjectures such as the Riemann Hypothesis. In fact, previously such distributional results had not been proven for any (non-trivial) sequence of number-theoretic interest, unconditionally.

 
As a model for the primes, in this talk I will address such statistical questions for the sequence of squarefree numbers, i.e., numbers not divisible by the square of any prime, among other related ``sifted'' sequences called B-free numbers. I hope to further motivate and explain our main result that shows, unconditionally, that short interval counts of squarefree numbers do satisfy Gaussian statistics, answering several old questions of R.R. Hall.

In this talk, we discuss the asymptotic behavior of the number of integer partitions into primes concerning a Chebotarev condition. In special cases, this reduces to the study of partitions into primes in arithmetic progressions. While the study for ordinary partitions goes back to Hardy and Ramanujan, partitions into primes have been re-visited recently. Our error term is sharp and in the particular case of partitions into prime numbers, we improve on a result of Vaughan. In connection with the monotonicity result of Bateman and Erd\H{o}s, we give an asymptotic formula for the difference of the number of partitions of positive integers which are k-apart.  

Let K be a function field with a constant field of size q. If E is an elliptic curve over K with nonconstant j-invariant then its L-function L(T,E/K) is a polynomia.orgl in 1 + T Z[T]. Inspired by the algorithms of Schoof and Pila for computing zeta functions of curves over finite fields, we consider the problem of computing the reduction of L(T,E/K) modulo an integer without first computing the whole L-function. Doing so for a large enough integer which is coprime with q completely determines L(T,E/K). The existing literature on this problem could be summarized as follows: Under the assumption that the Mordell-Weil group E(K) has a subgroup of order N ≥ 2, with N coprime with q, Chris Hall gave an explicit formula for the reduction L(T,E/K) mod N. We present novel theorems going beyond Hall's. https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12156