Dr. Jonathan Montaño, New Mexico State University
In how many points does a curve in the plane intersect a random straight line? The answer to this question is an invariant of the curve called "degree". The notion of degree extends to higher dimensional shapes that are defined in terms of polynomials (varieties) and it is…
Michael Harris, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
Abstract: The talk will be an introduction to the Langlands program and to some of the preoccupations of contemporary algebraic number theory.I will concentrate on the recent breakthrough of Vincent Lafforgue in defining a Langlands correspondence for reductive…