- Series
- School of Mathematics Colloquium
- Time
- Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Daniel Fiorilli – University of Ottawa – daniel.fiorilli@uottawa.ca – http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/dfiorill/index.html
- Organizer
- Michael Damron
While the fields named in the title seem unrelated, there is a strong
link between them. This amazing connection came to life during a meeting
between Freeman Dyson and Hugh Montgomery at the Institute for Advanced
Study. Random matrices are now known to predict many number theoretical
statistics, such as moments, low-lying zeros and correlations between
zeros. The goal of this talk is to discuss this connection, focusing on
number theory. We will cover both basic facts about the zeta functions
and recent developments in this active area of research.