CHAT (Career, History And Thoughts) series
general mathematics history and overview number theory
McGill University / Santa Clara University / University of California, Los Angeles
| Audience: | Researchers in the discipline |
| Seminar series time: | Every third Monday 23:00-23:50 in your time zone, UTC |
| Organizers: | Chi-Yun Hsu*, Shekhar Khare, Henri Darmon |
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The CHAT series invite established professors to talk about either (1) their math career in general (2) their theorems or theories, but explained from a personal and historical perspective, like how they came up with the problem, what the Aha! moment was like, how the problem changes from its initial form to the published rigorous form.
The idea is that instead of talking about their latest theorems, the speakers would take a step back and talk about the trajectory of an idea, the path to the discovery of a theorem, the influence of ideas learned through a paper or a chance conversation with a colleague, and the hazards met and overcome along the way.
| Your time | Speaker | Title | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | Dec 04 | 23:00 | Hélène Esnault | Codimension one in Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry | |
| Mon | May 24 | 23:00 | Henri Darmon | Modular functions and explicit class field theory: private reminiscences and public confessions | |
| Mon | May 17 | 23:00 | Peter Sarnak | Automorphic Cuspidal Representations and Maass Forms | |
| Mon | Apr 05 | 23:00 | Barry Mazur | Thoughts about Primes and Knots | |
| Tue | Feb 02 | 00:00 | Michael Harris | Galois representations and torsion cohomology: a series of misunderstandings | |
| Tue | Jan 12 | 00:00 | Benedict Gross | The conjectures of Gan, Gross, and Prasad | |
| Tue | Jan 05 | 00:00 | Ken Ribet | Langlands correspondence and geometry | |