Previous Conferences & Workshops

May
26
2006

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Modular Units
Amanda Folson
3:00pm|Fine Hall 214, Princeton University

In this talk I will discuss a particular family of modular units constructed using functional solutions to q-difference equations found in the work of Selberg. Arising in this way, these objects are of interest for various analytic properties and...

May
25
2006

2006 Women and Mathematics

Applications of Artin L-Functions: Density of Primes Splitting in a Covering, can you hear the shape of the graph?
10:45am|Simonyi Hall 101

Advanced Course Lecture

May
23
2006

Lie Groups, Representations and Discrete Mathematics

On Margulis' Normal Subgroup Theorem
2:00pm|West Building Lecture Theatre

In joint work with Yehuda Shalom, we have proved Margulis' Normal Subgroup Theorem for any discrete subgroup $\Gamma$ of the automorphism group of a locally finite $A_2$-tilde building, $B$, provided that the quotient of $B$ by $\Gamma$ is compact...