University of Lethbridge

Reduced ideals of a number field F have inverses of small norms and they form a finite and regularly distributed set in the infrastructure of F. Therefore, they can be used to compute the regulator and the class number of a number field. One usually...

In this talk I will discuss joint work with Clifton Cunningham, Ahamed Moussaui, James Mracek and Bin Xu. I will begin by giving a brief overview of the (conjectural) Langlands Correspondence, focusing in particular on Vogan's geometric reformulation...

The first introductory lecture may be followed as a colloquium talk, independent of the subsequent lectures. Lectures 1 and 2 are independent. Lectures 3 and 4 are independent, but each of them depends on Lecture 2. The lectures will be completed by...

In this talk we will begin by discussing the main goals of number theory and by explaining why zeta and L-functions are important. We will then introduce the Mahler measure, which is a function on the roots of polynomials but can also be extended to...

Well, it's not really a construction yet -- it's more like a template for constructions. It's a way to take many copies of one tetravalent graph B, the 'base graph', and identify each edge-midpoint with one other according to another graph C, the...

The study of the asymptotic behaviour of the summatory function of the number of divisors of shifted primes was initiated by Titchmarsh, who used the generalised Riemann hypothesis to establish a main term and remainder for the sum of tau(p-a) for p...

For any finite group G, a natural question to ask is the order of the smallest possible automorphism group for a Cayley graph on G. A particular Cayley graph whose automorphism group has this order is referred to as an MRR (Most Rigid Representation)...

We shall place in a general context the following result recently (*) obtained jointly with Yuri Bilu (Bordeaux), Sanoli Gun (Chennai) and Florian Luca (Johannesburg). Theorem. Let τ(⋅) be the classical Ramanujan τ-function and let k be a positive...

In this talk, I will discuss recent joint work with Wissam Raji. We show that, on average, the L-functions of cuspidal Hilbert modular forms with sufficiently large weight k do not vanish on the line segments I(s)=t0, R(s)∈(k−12,k2−ϵ)∪(k2+ϵ,k+12)...

We will discuss several results related to transversals in Latin squares (think "Sudoku") and other Latin square-like objects. These results centre around showing the existence of, the number of, or the structure of transversals in different cases...