Description
Department Colloquium
Speaker: Prof. Jean-Marc Deshouillers, Univ. Bordeaux, France
Time & Date: 4-5pm, 10th January 2018 (Wednesday)
Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Title: Sums of powers, a probabilistic approach
Abstract: Erd\H{o}s and R\’{e}nyi introduced in 1960 the study of sums
of $s$-th powers by probability methods. Their model has been largely
developed since then. The talk will give a survey of this probabilistic
approach, up to the most recent contributions obtained jointly
with Javier Cilleruelo.