Penn State
Algebra and Number Theory

The Algebra and Number Theory group at Penn State consists of researchers working in a variety of fields including:

Algebraic and Analytic Number Theory Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry Algebraic Statistics Combinatorics Commutative Algebra Cryptography Group Theory Finite Field Theory (incl. Coding Theory) K-Theory Operations Research (incl. Linear Programming & Game Theory)

1. June, 2013, Karl Schwede was awarded an NSF CAREER award.
2. May 20, 2013, In a paper submitted to Annals of Mathematics on April 17, 2013, Yitang Zhang proved that there is a positive number N smaller than 70 million such that there are infinitely many pairs of primes that differ by N.
3. May 13-14, 2013, In two papers posted at arXiv, Helfgott and Platt prove the ternary Goldbach conjecture: every odd integer n greater than 5 is the sum of three primes.
4. October 15, 2012, Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley Win Nobel in Economic Science.
5. October 1st -- 5th, 2012, Enrico Bombieri gives his series of Marker Lectures.
6. June 8th -- 15th 2012, Penn State University hosted the conference Algebraic Statistics in the Alleghenies