20 March 2025 | 16:30 [followed by wine reception]

Venue: King’s College London, Strand Building S(-1).27, Basement Floor 1.
[The Strand building is accessed from via the Strand reception located just south of St Mary le Strand Church]

Organiser: Owen Patashnick (KCL)

The London Heilbronn Colloquia are a series of triannunal lectures by distinguished mathematicians and theoretical physicists at the forefront of current research. They are aimed at a general mathematical audience and informal interaction with the speaker is invited.

p-adic Variation the Theory of Automorphic Forms

Glenn Stevens, Professor of Mathematics, Boston University, USA

This will be an expository lecture intended for a general mathematical audience to illustrate, through examples, the theme of p-adic variation in the classical theory of modular forms. Classically, modular forms are complex analytic objects, but because their Fourier coefficients are typically integral, it is possible to also do elementary arithmetic with them. Early examples arose already in the work of Ramanujan. Today one knows that modular forms encode deep arithmetic information about elliptic curves and Galois representations. Our main goal will be to illustrate these ideas through simple concrete examples.

This event is free and open to all, but registration is required. Please register before 18 March 2025

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