Thursday, May 23, 2013 1:30 pm
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1:30 pm
EDT (GMT -04:00)
David Farmer, American Institute of Mathematics
“L-functions: finding, calculating, and using them”
Many objects in number theory and related areas are associated to L-functions. Examples include algebraic varieties, automorphic representations, Galois representations, and modular forms. I will discuss what L-functions can tell us about other objects, and what those objects can tell us about L-functions.