Talks

Future

9th-13th December 2013, Workshop on Emerging applications of finite fields, Linz, Austria.

28th June 2013, Séminaire Codage, Cryptologie, Algorithmes, INRIA Saclay.

'Sumsets, sampling and almost periodicity'
16th May 2013, London 2-day colloquium in combinatorics, London School of Economics, UK.

Past

'Polynomial configurations in the primes'
16th March 2013, Number theory days 2013, EPFL, Lausanne.

'Polynomial configurations in the primes'
5th March 2013, Linfoot Seminar, University of Bristol, UK.

'Polynomial configurations in the primes'
30th January 2013, Discrete analysis seminar, University of Cambridge, UK.

'Sous-groupes approximatifs et applications'
12th-14th November 2012, Forum des jeunes mathématicien-ne-s, plenary lecture, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris.

'De la combinatoire additive à l'analyse harmonique d'ordre supérieur, et ses applications en théorie des nombres'
13th-16th June 2012, Colloque Jeunes Chercheurs en Théorie des Nombres, mini-cours, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon.

'De la combinatoire additive à l'analyse harmonique d'ordre supérieur'
24th May 2012, IMJ Colloquium, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Paris.

'Colouring graphs and elements of Z_n: analogies and differences'
11th April 2012, Oberwolfach mini-workshop on Hypergraph Turan Problems, Germany.

'From additive combinatorics to number theory: adding the squares'
2nd April 2012, Young Researchers in Mathematics 2012, keynote lecture, University of Bristol, UK.

'Polynomial progressions in the primes, d'après Green, Tao et Ziegler'
24th March 2012, Séminaire Bourbaki, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

'De la combinatoire additive à l'analyse harmonique d'ordre supérieur'
30th January 2012, Séminaire d'analyse harmonique, Université Orsay, Paris.

'Introduction to additive combinatorics'
23rd-25th January 2012, Premier Congrès Franco-Chilien de Dynamique et Combinatoire, mini-course, Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme, France.

'De la combinatoire additive à l'analyse harmonique d'ordre supérieur'
29th November 2011, Séminaire Dynamique, Arithmétique, Combinatoire ERNEST, Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy, France.

'Ergodic, analytic and combinatorial approaches to decomposition theorems for bounded functions'
21st November 2011, London-Paris Number Theory Seminar, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris.

'Large sets with little structure'
16th November 2011, Discrete Mathematics Group, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

'Finite field models in additive number theory'
27th October 2011, Integers 2011, Plenary Lecture, University of West Georgia, Carollton, GA.

'Quadratic pseudorandomness and decomposition theorems for bounded functions'
20th October 2011, Theory Seminar, University of Chicago, IL.

'Counting arithmetic progressions'
18th October 2011, Combinatorics and Probability Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

'De la combinatoire additive à l'analyse harmonique d'ordre supérieur'
10th June 2011, Journeé de Théorie Analytique des Nombres, Nancy Université, France.

'De la combinatoire additive à l'analyse harmonique d'ordre supérieur'
8th June 2011, Séminaire tournant de Théorie Analytique des Nombres et d'Approximation Diophantienne, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France.

'Le principe de transfert'
13th and 19th May 2011, Number Theory Study Group, Chevaleret, Paris.

'Counting solutions to linear systems in uniform sets'
6th April 2011, Heilbronn seminar, University of Bristol, UK.

'Facteurs caractéristiques en combinatoire additive'
22nd March 2011, Séminaire de Théorie Ergodique, Jussieu, Paris, France.

'Recent improvements on the cap set problem (due to Bateman and Katz)'
11th March 2011, Number Theory Student Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.

24th February 2011, Workshop "Discrete Methods in Ergodic Theory" on the occasion of Terence Tao's Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. [cancelled due to illness]

'Counting solutions to linear systems in uniform sets'
22th November 2010, Rencontres de théorie analytique et élémentaire des nombres, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France.

'Exponential sums over locally defined quadratics'
4th November 2010, Conference "Exponential sums over finite fields and applications", ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.

'Decomposition theorems for bounded functions'
28th October 2010, Séminaire d'Analyse Fonctionelle, Jussieu, Paris, France.

'Structure and randomness in the integers: harmonic analysis and beyond'
4th June 2010, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.

'What Fourier analysis can and cannot tell us about the integers'
20th May 2010, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France.

'Large sets with little structure'
19th May 2010, Séminaire de combinatoire additive, Universite Paris 6, France.

'What Fourier analysis can and cannot tell us about the integers'
7th May 2010, Symposium "New Directions in Mathematics", University of Zurich, Switzerland.

'What Fourier analysis can and cannot tell us about the integers'
25th February 2010, Algebra, Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.

'Interpreting polynomial structure analytically'
8th February 2010, Discrete Math and Computer Science Seminar, IAS, Princeton, NJ.

'Introduction to additive combinatorics'
5th February 2010, Number Theory Student Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.

'An Introduction to Quadratic Fourier Analysis'
14th January 2010, Mathematics Department Colloquium, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

'Interpreting polynomial structure analytically'
2nd December 2009, Workshop on Analytical Methods in Combinatorics, Additive Number Theory and Computer Science, IPAM, Los Angeles, CA.

'One, two, ... -- red, blue, ...'
19th November 2009, RUSMEO Lecture Series (formerly The Rutgers Pi Club), Piscataway, NJ.

'High-rank polynomial phase decompositions, with number-theoretic applications'
7th November 2009, AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Arithmetic Combinatorics, UC Riverside, CA.

'Calculus against the swine flu: modelling the spread of infectious disease'
5th November 2009, Mathematical Careers and Ideas Lecture Series, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.

'The minimum number of monochromatic 4-term progressions'
29th October 2009, Discrete Math Seminar, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

'Counting solutions to linear systems modulo N - an introduction to local quadratic Fourier analysis'
24th October 2009, AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, Penn State University, PA.

'What the Fourier transform can and cannot tell us about the integers'
22nd October 2009, Women in Mathematics Lecture Series, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

'The minimum number of monochromatic 4-term progressions'
6th October 2009, Discrete Math Seminar, Columbia University, New York, NY.

'The minimum number of monochromatic 4-term progressions' [Slides]
28th May 2009, Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.

'Minimal characteristic factors for linear systems - a quantitative approach' [Slides]
13th May 2009, Conference on Dynamical Systems and Randomness, Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, France.

'The minimum number of monochromatic 4-term progressions'
4th March 2009, Discrete Math Seminar, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.

'Monochromatic structures in the integers'
10th February 2009, Discrete Math Seminar, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

'What Fourier analysis can and cannot tell us about the integers'
15th December 2008, Number Theory Seminar, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

'Decompositions into polynomial phase functions'
7th November 2008, Discrete Rigidity Phenomena in Additive Combinatorics Workshop, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA.

'Quadratic Fourier Analysis'
21st October 2008, Mathematics Department Colloquium, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.

'The structure of popular difference sets'
25th September 2008, Number Theory Seminar, CUNY, New York, NY.

'Minimal characteristic factors for linear systems'
19th September 2008, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA.

'The true complexity of a system of linear equations'
15th July 2008, Canadian Number Theory Association Meeting X, Waterloo, ON.

'Linear configurations in uniform sets'
27th March 2008, Joint Columbia-NYU-CUNY Number Theory Seminar, New York, NY.

'Counting solutions to linear systems in uniform sets'
21st March 2008, Number Theory Seminar, Stanford/AIM, Palo Alto, CA.

'Uniformity norms and the complexity of linear systems'
11th January 2008, Analysis and PDE Seminar, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

'Decompositions into quadratic phase functions'
14th November 2007, Arithmetic Combinatorics Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.

'Minimal characteristic factors in arithmetic combinatorics'
30th October 2007, Dynamical Systems Seminar, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

'Linear configurations in uniform sets'
3rd October 2007, Short Talk, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.

'Linear configurations in uniform sets'
14th May 2007, Discrete Analysis Seminar, Cambridge, UK.

'Long arithmetic progressions in the primes: constructing a pseudorandom majorant for the von-Mangoldt function'
28th April 2006, Number theory study group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

'Introduction to Fourier analysis on finite Abelian groups with applications'
24th November and 1st December 2005, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.