SPS is organising a seminar by Kumar Murty

&nbsp; <strong>Maths Seminar of the School of Physical Sciences -------------------------------------------</strong> &nbsp; <strong>Title: x^n + x + a</strong> &nbsp; Speaker:<strong> Kumar Murty </strong>(University of Toronto, Toronto) &nbsp; Date:&nbsp; <strong>August 22, 2017 (Tuesday)</strong> Time: <strong>11:30 hrs&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [&nbsp;&nbsp; **&nbsp; Please note the unusual time and venue&nbsp; **&nbsp;&nbsp; ]</strong> Venue: <strong>Lecture Room-I (No. 243), First Floor,School of Physical Sciences (SPS), JNU</strong> &nbsp; <strong>Abstract: </strong>This family of polynomials has many nice properties. In particular, we will discuss their irreducibility, their discriminants, and their Galois groups, and why they are relevant in coding theory and in cryptography. There are many interesting open problems about the prime divisors of the discriminants. I will describe joint work with undergraduate student Shuyang Shen on some of these questions in which we explore consequences of the ABC conjecture. &nbsp;