On Sunday Carl, Anne (his wife) and I hiked Mt. Cardigan. Carl told me that he liked hiking so I invited him to go hike the beautiful Cardigan. Yuliia was supposed to join, but she didn't feel well. The hike was fun. It was very windy at the top, so Carl decided to sit down at a nice view while Anne and I did the last part to get to the top. I had a really nice time.

On Monday I did some errands getting ready for my trip to Georgia. Tuesday we got up early to get to Boston. I was shocked to see the trees and the grass being white so soon (October 13) on the ride to Boston. There was a lot of traffic so we barely got to the airport in time. The flight was uneventful. When we got to Atlanta we left our baggage in storage while we went downtown to tour a bit. We walked around Peachtree street and around the Centennial Olympic Park (amazing!) and then we went to eat dinner at a Brazilian steakhouse. I loved it. There were all kinds of delicious meats brought to our table. Yuliia ate a lot and enjoyed it too. After the dinner we walked some more and then headed back to the airport where we would meet up with Paul, Mits and Lola. After some confusion with the rental car, we got a nice big car, Grand Marquis, and then drove to Carrollton, the home of the University of West Georgia.

Wednesday was the first day of the conference and there were lots of really cool talks. I enjoyed a talk about 5-regular partitions (partitions without multiples of 5), I was very excited about seeing Hendrik Lenstra giving a talk and I enjoyed the talk by Paul about perfect numbers. He gave a great talk.
At night we went to have dinner to a Hawaian restuarant to celebrate Mel and Carl's birthdays (the conference was in honor of their 65th birthday). I ordered the Mahi-Mahi and it was delicious. I had a great time talking with all of our crew (which in this dinner included also Dominic, Carl and Jean Marc).

On Thursday I had a great time listening to Kevin Ford talk about some really cool results in primality theory among other talks I enjoyed that morning. At lunch break, we went to a Southern sandwich cafe which had very tasty food. Everybody was very nice. After the lunch break I got to see other cool talks, among them Florian's proof that there are no multiply perfect Fibonacci numbers and Mits' talk about finding the fourth digit on the density of abundant numbers (.2476...).
At night, Yuliia and I went to have dinner at a Japanese Steakhouse. It was our anniversary, but we will probably celebrate with a nicer dinner sometime this week in New Hampshire. I am very happy to get to the first anniversary in my marriage. The year has been wonderful.

After dinner, I worked on rewriting my talk. I wanted to make my introduction better and add a slide on giving more steps on the proof. I finished editing my talk at 4am, which was very good.

On Friday, I was very focused on thinking about my talk so it was very hard to follow the talks before my talk. It was unfortunate, because Ron Graham was giving a very cool talk about juggling sequences. I wish I could have been there 100% in the talk to get more out of it. Then I gave my talk, listing my results on Burgess. I finished 5 minutes early, so I could've added stuff, but I think overall the talk went okay. I did a better job at the Number Theory seminar at Dartmouth, but it was better than my talk at Maine/Quebec.

In the afternoon, I was very happy to see András Sárkozy give a talk. Sárkozy is the mathematician with the most Erdos joint papers. He gave a cool talk about the Erdos-Fuchs theorem. Another talk I enjoyed was Dominic's. In fact, I took some mental notes to be sure to incorporate some of his techniques, as I think he is a very good speaker.

At night, we drove to Alabama so we could say we have been in Alabama. Then after standing there for 10 minutes we drove back to stop at a Waffle House. The food was fantastic and very cheap. I enjoyed very tasty hashbrowns. After dinner, we hung out talking. It was a really good time.

Another thing I did a lot while in Georgia was jump in the bed. I jumped from the TV desk, I freefell from the couch, I used the elasticity of the bed to flip, I did all sorts of jumps. It was so much fun. Yuliia took hundreds of pictures and I had hours of fun.

Saturday was another really cool day. There were some cool talks in the morning. Lola gave the last talk of the conference and when she finished, we started our journey. After picking up Yuliia from the hotel, we drove to Atlanta to eat a Rias diner, which had some very tasty vegetarian options (Lola is vegan). After eating, we drove to Stone Mountain. Stone Mountain has a relief of three confederate heroes. Our plan was to see that and then drive back to Atlanta to the Coca Cola museum. When we arrived at the park, we saw some signs and started walking. We figured maybe there was a hike needed to see the monument. Once we were getting close to the top I was skeptical that we would see any monument as I recalled Carl telling me he hiked the mountain with Erdos and that from the top of the mountain you can't see the monument (as it is sculpted on the side of the mountain). The top had really spectacular views of Atlanta but no view of the monument. The views of Atlanta made it worth it even with the cold wind slapping our faces. The hike was a mile, so it took us over an hour to go up and down which ruined our plans for the Coca Cola museum. At the top of the mountain we had figured how we would get to the monument. Once we got there, I was very unimpressed. It was cool, but not super cool.

From there, we were a little nervous about making it to the airport in time, but we did make it in time (barely). The flight back was uneventful. Now I am at home relaxing with Yuliia and Richy (our new dog). Life is good.