This course was taught at Queen Mary in 2010; it is not being offered in the 2011–2012 academic year.

MTH738U: Additive Combinatorics, Autumn 2010

Course description and information

• A course description can be found from the department's module listings.
• Lectures: Thursdays 09:00–11:00, room 203 (maths). (Departmental timetable.)
• Lecturer: Olof Sisask, room 113 (maths).
• Office hours: Fridays 13:30–14:30.

Reading materials

The course will be largely self-contained, but the book Additive Combinatorics by Terence Tao and Van Vu is a very useful reference for the subject. The following resources are all very good and may offer different perspectives on material covered in class.

• Ben Green's excellent notes for his graduate course on Additive Combinatorics given at Cambridge in 2009.
• Terence Tao's blog, which has a wealth of interesting articles and course notes. Links to his courses can be found on his departmental webpage.

Materials

Since some students missed the first lecture, I have made notes for this available here.

There are plenty of exercises in the notes, and you are encouraged to do these as we go along. You are welcome to hand in attempts at exercises from the notes and from the example sheets given out in class to me for informal feedback.