Math 196, Student Colloquium, Winter
2019
Coordinator: Andrew Suk
Office: APM 6210
E-mail: asuk [@] ucsd [dot] edu
Time and Place:, APM 2404, Wed 1:00-1:50pm
Description: This is a weekly colloquium aimed to give students a
fun and informative introduction to various areas of mathematical
research.
Grades: There will be a sign-in sheet at each colloquium.
You may miss at most one colloquium to receive credit.
1/9/2019: Andrew Suk
Title: Sums versus products
In this talk, I will sketch a surprising proof due to Gyorgy Elekes on a
non-trivial lower bound for the sums-versus-product problem in
combinatorial number theory.