Number Theory Seminar

Thursday, November 19, 2015 1:30 pm - 1:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Akshaa Vatwani, Queen’s University

“A higher rank Selberg sieve and applications”

We present a general higher rank Selberg sieve and apply it to various questions in number theory. In particular, we improve upon a result of Heath-Brown on almost prime k-tuples. This is joint work with Professor Ram Murty.

MC 5479