50 Years of the Hales-Jewett Theorem
SCHEDULE pdf file with abstracts
FRIDAY Room HH 345
8:30- 9:30 (registration open, coffee available)
9:30- 9:45 Opening of the conference, remarks by organizers et al.
9:45-10:45 Ron Graham -- The Hales-Jewett Theorem---Then and Now
10:45-11:15 (coffee break)
11:15-12:15 Marijn Heule -- Solving and Verifying the Boolean Pythagorean Triples Problem via Cube-and-Conquer
12:15-12:20 Conference photo
12:20- 2:00 (lunch break)
2:00- 3:00 David Conlon -- Ordered Ramsey numbers
3:00- 3:30 (coffee break)
3:30- 4:30 Dhruv Mubayi -- New developments in hypergraph Ramsey theory
SATURDAY Room CF 110
8:30- 9:30 (registration open, coffee available)
9:30-10:00 Fan Chung -- Discrepancies of sequences of numbers
10:00-11:00 Jarik Nesetril -- Hales Jewett Theorem and Structural Ramsey Theory
11:00-11:30 (coffee break)
11:30-12:30 Neil Hindman -- The Hales-Jewett Theorem and algebra in the Stone-Cech compactification
12:30- 2:30 (lunch break)
2:30- 3:30 Gabor Tardos -- Epsilon-nets for geometric ranges
3:30- 4:00 (coffee break)
4:00- 5:00 Al Hales and Bob Jewett
SUNDAY CF 110
9:00- 9:30 Mel Nathanson -- Comparison estimates for linear forms
9:30-10:30 Imre Leader -- Monochromatic Infinite Sumsets
10:30-11:00 (coffee break)
11:00-12:00 Vitaly Bergelson -- Some Applications of the Polynomial Hales-Jewett Theorem and a Conjecture
12:00-12:15 Closing of the conference, remarks by organizers et al.