Oregon Number Theory Days

Oregon Number Theory Days 2025:

Saturday/Sunday March 1-2, 2025

Oregon State University

Corvallis, OR

Talks and Coffee Breaks will be in Kelley Engineering Center, room 1001.

Catered Meals will be in Kidder Hall, room 108 (Math and Stats Learning Center).

Registration:

Please complete a short registration form by Jan. 24 if you would like to present and/or request funding, and if possible by Feb. 21 if you are planning to attend.

Funding:

We have funding available for travel, lodging, and possibly meals (in addition to the meals that we will cater).  Please indicate your funding requests on the registration form.

We will prioritize funding for presenters as well as students and recent PhDs based in the Pacific Nothwest, though we expect to fund all regional participants and may have funding for some additional participants as well.

Hotel will be booked directly, mileage will take the form of a reimbursement.  Travel may be able to be booked directly, otherwise reimbursed.

For questions about financial support, please email Holly Swisher at swisherh (at) oregonstate (dot) edu.

Schedule: 

Saturday

9:00-10:00 Coffee, Fruit, and Pastries

10:00-10:20 Stephanie Treneer (Western Washington University), 

Replicable functions arising from towers of codes, lattices and vertex operator algebras

10:30-10:50 Alexander Wang (University of Washington),

Realizable degree sets of superelliptic curves over Henselian fields

11:00-11:20 Amin Soofani (University of British Columbia),

Hensel's Lemma for the Norm Principal for Groups of Type D_n

11:30-11:50 Nagarjuna Chary Addanki (University of Oklahoma),

On signs of Hecke eigenvalues of Ikeda lifts

12-1 Catered Lunch in Kidder 108 (Math and Statistics Learning Center)

1:00-1:20 Debanjana Kundu (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley),

Elliptic curves of conductor 2^mp, quadratic twists, and Watkins’s conjecture

1:30-1:50 Andrés Valloud (Oregon State University),

Ramanujan-Type Supercongruences and the Wilf-Zeilberger Algorithm

2:00-2:20 Francis Dunn (University of Oregon),

Rankin-Cohen Type Operators on Automorphic Forms

2:30-2:50 Jeffrey Vaaler (Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin)

Problems for Future Research

3:00-3:30 Coffee and Pastries

3:30-4:30 Panel Discussion:  Research and Funding Opportunities for Junior Researchers 

(Panelists: Debanjana Kundu, Holly Swisher, Stephanie Treneer, Jeffrey Vaaler)

5:00-6:00 Student Pizza Party in Kidder 108 (Math and Statistics Learning Center)

Sunday

9:00-10:00 Coffee, Fruit, and Pastries

10:00-10:20 Holly Swisher (Oregon State University),

Modular Functions and the Monstrous Exponents

10:30-10:50 Erin Williams (Portland State University),

Non-vanishing of Tr(T_n) in Higher Levels

11:00-11:20 Lucas Perryman-Deskins (Oregon State University),

Ray Class Theta Series

11:30-11:50 Alexander Galarraga (University of Washington),

The Potential Density Degree Set

12:00-1:00 Catered Lunch in Kidder 108 (Math and Statistics Learning Center)

(Talk by Jaxon Schumaker (University of Oregon) is canceled.)

Abstracts:

Please see abstracts for a pdf of the abstracts we have received thus far.

Local Information:

Parking

Parking is free on the Oregon State University campus during weekends.  Please see here for location of parking lots.

Hotel

We have reserved a block of rooms at the Comfort Suites for direct billing for participants who have requested funding. 

Organizers:

• Lucas Perryman-Deskins, Oregon State University

• Holly Swisher, Oregon State University

• Andrés Valloud, Oregon State University

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