<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div>Degerli liste uyeleri, </div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dr. Kevser Aktas (Queen's University) 7 Mart Pazartesi gunu Sabanci Universitesi'nde seminer verecektir. Asagida detaylarini bulacaginiz etkinlige katiliminiz bizi mutlu edecektir.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">iyi gunler dilegiyle</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">canan kasikci</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Ulasim icin: <div><a href="http://www.sabanciuniv.edu/en/transportation/shuttle-hours" target="_blank">http://www.sabanciuniv.edu/en/transportation/shuttle-hours</a> </div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><br></strong></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>............................................</strong></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Title: Fundamental Units and Consecutive Squarefull Numbers</strong></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><br></strong></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Date/Time/Place: 7 March, 13:40, FENS 2008</strong></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Abstract</strong>: An integer n is called squarefull (or powerful) if in its prime factorization all the prime factors have exponents greater than 1. In this talk, we connect several seemingly unrelated conjectures of Ankeny, Artin, Chowla and Mordell to a conjecture of Erdos on consecutive squarefull numbers. We then study  the "Erdos conjecture" and relate it to the "abc conjecture". We also derive by elementary methods several unconditional results pertaining to the Erdos conjecture. This is a joint work with Prof. M. Ram Murty.</div></div>