Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker: Vinayak Vatsal (University of British Columbia)
Host: Dipendra Prasad
Title: Special values of the Riemann zeta function
Time, day and date: 4:00:00 PM - 5:00:00 PM, Wednesday, August 20
Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Abstract: I will give formulae for values of the Riemann zeta function at negative odd integers, originally found by Euler. These values are rational numbers, which — despite their apparently elementary nature — are deeply connected with hard number-theoretic problems. I will describe some of these connections, and try to describe a few modern results on this topic.