Harmonic Analysis and Combinatorics: Continuing to Contribute To Each Other

Izabella Laba
Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia

Abstract: Harmonic analysis and combinatorics: How much may they contribute to each other?" asked Jean Bourgain in a 2000 review article. Since then, there has been an explosion of interest in the subject, with recent developments ranging from the work of Green and Tao on the arithmetic progressions in primes to the hypergraph regularity theorems of Gowers and Nagle, Rodl, Schacht and Skokan; and yet it seems that we could go much further. In this talk, I will attempt to survey some of these developments, their context, and the emerging new directions in the field.