Convexity and squares in additive combinatorics

A nice collection of problems in additive combinatorics focus on analysing solutions to additive equations over sequences that exhibit some flavour of convexity. This, for instance, includes genuine convex sequences as well as images of arbitrary sets under convex functions. In this talk, I will survey some of the literature surrounding these type of questions, along with some motivation from analytic number theory as well as the current best known results towards these problems.