Special Year 2009-10: Analytic Number Theory - Seminar

This is an exposition of work on Artin's Conjecture on the zeros of p-adic forms.A variety of lines of attack are described ,going back to 1945.However there is particular emphasis on recent developments concerning quartic forms on the one hand ,and...

Analytic and Geometric Number Theory Seminar

March 25, 2010 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

The Ramanujan conjecture states that for a holomorphic cusp form $f(z) =\sum_{n \in N} \lambda_f(n)e(nz)$ of weight $k$, the coefficients $\lambda_f(n)$ satisfy the bound $|\lambda_f(n)| \ll_\epsilon n^{(k−1)/2+\epsilon}$. In the case where $k$ is...

This is an exposition of work on Artin's Conjecture on the zeros of p-adic forms.A variety of lines of attack are described ,going back to 1945.However there is particular emphasis on recent developments concerning quartic forms on the one hand ,and...

Analytic and Geometric Number Theory Seminar

March 11, 2010 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

In this talk I will construct a class of probabilistic random Euler products to model the behavior of L-functions in the strip 1/2 Re(s) 1. We then deduce results on the distribution of extreme values of several families of L-functions, including...

We describe how various fundamental algebraic structures (involving, for example, number fields, class groups, and algebraic curves) can be parameterized via the orbits of appropriate group representations. By developing techniques to count such...

Analytic and Geometric Number Theory Seminar

March 04, 2010 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Let E be an elliptic curve over Q and let Q(E[n]) be its n-th division field. In 1972, Serre showed that if E is without complex multiplication, then the Galois group of Q(E[n])/Q is as large as possible, that is, GL_2(Z/n Z), for all integers n...

We describe how various fundamental algebraic structures (involving, for example, number fields, class groups, and algebraic curves) can be parameterized via the orbits of appropriate group representations. By developing techniques to count such...