- AMSI ACCESS GRID SEMINAR
- Speaker: Akshay Venkatesh, Stanford University
- Title: The Cohen-Lenstra heuristics: from arithmetic to topology and back again
- Location: Room V206, Mathematics Building (Callaghan Campus) The University of Newcastle
- Access Grid Venue: TBC
- Time and Date: 1:00 pm, Wed, 25th Sep 2013
- Abstract:
I will discuss some models of what a "random abelian group" is, and some conjectures (the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics of the title) about how they show up in number theory. I'll then discuss the function field setting and a proof of these heuristics, with Ellenberg and Westerland. The proof is an example of a link between analytic number theory and certain classes of results in algebraic topology ("homological stability").
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