2:00 pm Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Junior Number Theory: Introduction to Modular Forms by Kim Hopkins (UT-Austin) in RLM 9.166
Though modular forms are perhaps most important to number theorists, they appear as well in topology, physics, and nature, and their theory uses topology, complex analysis, and both the analytic and algebraic sides of number theory. In this talk we will give an introduction to modular forms. We will begin with their definitions, and cover the central elements of the theory up to and including Hecke operators. There will be key motivating examples throughout. This talk is self contained and is intended to be an introduction. This is the first talk of two and will serve as an introduction for the background that will be assumed in the second. Submitted by
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