Preface
Todd Cochran e an d Rober t Dressie r note d th e commo n interest s o f numbe r
theorists an d harmoni c analyst s i n thei r department , an d propose d a n NSF -
CBMS conferenc e whos e purpos e woul d b e t o furthe r th e cross-fertilizatio n be -
tween thes e tw o areas . Th e conferenc e too k plac e durin g th e wee k Ma y 21-25,
1990, o n th e campu s o f Kansa s Stat e University , i n Manhatta n ("Th e Littl e
Apple"), Kansas . Th e conferenc e wa s funde d b y NS F Gran t DMS-8912917.
In addition , NS A Gran t MDS-904-90-14-401 8 provide d th e trave l expense s o f a
number o f graduates students , enablin g the m t o atten d th e conference .
In additio n t o th e lecture s reporte d upo n i n thi s volume , th e conferenc e fea -
tured th e followin g nin e major addresses :
Speaker
J. Bec k
(Rutgers U. )
P. X . Gallaghe r
(Columbia U. )
H. Iwanie c
(Rutgers U. )
T. W . Korne r
(Cambridge U. )
J.-F. Mel a
(U. Paris XIII )
I. Z . Ruzs a
(MTA, Budapest )
B. Saffar i
(U. Paris XI )
G. Tenenbau m
(U. Nancy )
R. C . Vaugha n
(Imperial College )
Title
New Applications of the Roth-Haldsz Method in
Irregularities of Distribution
Duality for long second Moments of
Short Interval Densities
Estimates for coefficients of L-functions
Universal Fourier Series
Remarkable Subgroups of the Circle
Nouveaux sets of Trigonometric Polynomials:
Halfway between Random and Regular
An Account of extremal Problems on Polynomials
with restricted Coefficients
Fourier Transforms of Divisor Distributions:
A Survey of Applications
The Upper Bound for G(k) in Waring's Problem
