Seminar series
Date
Thu, 12 Mar 2015
Time
16:00 -
17:00
Location
L5
Speaker
Jon Keating
Organisation
University of Bristol
I will review some classical problems in number theory concerning the statistical distribution of the primes, square-free numbers and values of the divisor function; for example, fluctuations in the number of primes in short intervals and in arithmetic progressions. I will then explain how analogues of these problems in the function field setting can be resolved by expressing them in terms of matrix integrals.