InFoMM CDT Group Meeting
InFoMM CDT Group Meeting
InFoMM CDT Group Meeting
InFoMM CDT Group Meeting
InFoMM CDT Group Meeting
InFoMM CDT Group Meeting
Vicky Neale - Closing the Gap: the quest to understand prime numbers
Abstract
Prime numbers have intrigued, inspired and infuriated mathematicians for millennia and yet mathematicians' difficulty with answering simple questions about them reveals their depth and subtlety.
Join Vicky to learn about recent progress towards proving the famous Twin Primes Conjecture and to hear the very different ways in which these breakthroughs have been made - a solo mathematician working in isolation, a young mathematician displaying creativity at the start of a career, a large collaboration that reveals much about how mathematicians go about their work.
Vicky Neale is Whitehead Lecturer at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Supernumerary Fellow at Balliol College.
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11:00
Does decidability go up in finite field extensions?
Abstract
We will follow a suggestion by Udi to construct a decidable field which has an undecidable finite extension.
Governments around the world are seeking to address the economic and humanitarian consequences of climate change. One of the most graphic indications of warming temperatures is the melting of the large ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica. This is a litmus test for climate change, since ice loss may contribute more than a metre to sea-level rise over the next century, and the fresh water that is dumped into the ocean will most likely affect the ocean circulation that regulates our temperature.