Seminar in Pisa: Vitaly Bergelson

Thursday 9th June, h 16:00

Aula Magna, Dipartimento di Matematica, Pisa

Vitaly Bergelson (Ohio State University)

“Ergodic Ramsey Theory: the Meeting point of Dynamics and Combinatorics”

Abstract: The goal of this talk is to demonstrate the dynamical underpinning of some old and new results in combinatorics and number theory. The results to be discussed include Schur’s theorem on Fermat equation over finite fields, theorems of van der Waerden and Szemeredi on arithmetic progressions and some of modern developments involving multiple recurrence along polynomials and applications to the patterns in primes.