In Term 1 2016, we are running a study group on the odd Goldbach conjecture (actually a theorem of Vinogradov from 1937, for sufficiently large odd numbers). The goal is to educate ourselves about the ingredients in the proof, and in the process get a general overview of the Hardy--Littlewood circle method and various other techniques in analytic number theory.

Here is the current schedule of speakers:

Week 2	Adam Introduction/overview of the proof
Week 3	George The Siegel--Walfisz Theorem, part I
Week 4	Vandita The Siegel--Walfisz Theorem, part II
Week 5	Chris The major arc estimate
Week 6	Alessandro Adding up the major arc contributions
Week 7	Marco Vaughan's Identity
Week 8	Francesco The minor arc estimate
Week 9	Mattia Putting everything together/ what would happen in the binary problem?
Week 10	Nicolas Extensions (Waring's problem)