University of Lethbridge

Please bring your favourite (math) problems. Anyone with a problem to share will be given about 5 minutes to present it. We will also choose most of the speakers for the rest of the semester.

In this talk we will discuss a combinatorial approach to studying the geometry of the moduli space of Langlands parameters for GLn. We will first discuss several connections between the study of partitions and the study of nilpotent conjugacy classes...

Let omega(n) denote the number of distinct prime divisors of n. Let W(m) be a random integer chosen uniformly from the set of natural numbers less than or equal to m. Let X(m) be omega(W(m)). The celebrated Erdos-Kac theorem asserts that if the...

Let q≡1(mod4) be a prime power and Fq be the finite field with q elements. Let 1/2σ1 be fixed. We consider D a monic square-free polynomial in Fq[T] and χD the Kronecker symbol associated with D. In this talk, we will discuss the distribution of...

Please bring your favourite (math) problems. Anyone with a problem to share will be given about 5 minutes to present it. We will also choose most of the speakers for the rest of the semester.

We use properties of modular forms to extend the Ramanujan-Mordell formula. Our result yields to formulas for representation numbers by the quadratic form ∑2ai=1x2i+∑2bi=1py2i, for all non-negative integers a,b and for all odd prime p. We obtain this...

One version of the Polycirculant Conjecture is that every finite vertex-transitive digraph admits a non-trivial semiregular automorphism. I will give an overview of the status of this conjecture, as well as describe some recent progress with Michael...

We describe a theorem due to Jianya Liu and Yangbo Ye (Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly, Volume 3, Number 2, 481-497, 2007) concerning the prime number theorem for automorphic L-functions. We state the theorem and review the strategy of the...

Vertex operator algebras (VOAs) as discussed in this talk are graded complex vector spaces with a collection of many bilinear operations satisfying some intricate identities. They first arose in mathematics and physics via the study of string theory...

In this talk, we present an introduction to p-adic numbers and their appearance in number theory. In particular, we give a proof of Ostrowski's theorem.