Date & Time: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 16:00-17:00.
Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Speaker: M. Ram Murty, Queen's University
Title: Special values of L-functions
Abstract: Beginning with Euler's celebrated result evaluating the Riemann zeta function at even arguments, we consider the general problem of evaluating an arbitrary L-function at integer points. In particular, we obtain some new results for Artin L-series.