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The Unity of Mathematics - Examples from Transcendental Number Theory

by Michel Waldschmidt (Sorbonne Universite, Institut Mathematique de Jussieu, Paris)
October 4 (Thursday) @ 4:00 PM

 

Visualization of Salmonella-induced Filaments

by Moirangthem Kiran Singh
18th May @ 5:00 PM

 

Hot-carrier cooling in hybrid Pb-Sn halide perovskites

by Sachin Dev Verma
7th May @ 5:00 PM

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Welcome to SPS Journal Club

 Upcoming Talk :

'The Unity of Mathematics - Examples from Transcendental Number Theory '

Speaker: Prof. Michel Waldschmidt

Designation/Affiliation: Sorbonne Universite, Institut Mathematique de Jussieu, Paris

Date: October 4 (Thursday), 2018 Time: 4:00 PM
Venue: Seminar Hall, SPS

Series of Talks: two talks at ISI Delhi on October 3 & 5 and one talk at SPS, JNU on October 4.

Abstract : In this series of three talks, the speaker will demonstrate the Unity of Mathematics by way of walking through a garden of examples from various disciplines that are related to Transcendental Number Theory. Our tour will include: Diophantine approximation, Algebraic number theory, Differential equations, Special functions, Diophantine geometry, Arakelov theory, Geometry of numbers, Complex analysis (one or several variables), Hormander Del-bar estimates, Commutative algebra, Seshadri's constant, Weil's conjecture on characters of type A and A0, l-adic representations, p-adic analysis, Topology, Arithmetic complexity of polynomials, Dynamical systems, Automata theory, Algebraic combinatorics, Logic: model theory.

 

 

 

 

 

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