UCSB Math Department

Graduate Number Theory Seminar
Fall 2020

Organizers: David Nguyen, Mulun Yin.

Meets Wednesday 11-12 pm PT.
Due to the COVID-19 we will still be having virtual meetings on Zoom.


This fall, we will be going through the book Lectures on the Riemann Zeta Function by H. Iwaniec (AMS University Lecture Series, 2014), focusing mainly on the second half of the book.


Date Speaker Chapter
October 16 Organizational meeting
October 21 David Nguyen Introduction
October 28 Mulun Yin 17. Detecting critical zeros
18. Conrey's construction
19. The argument variations
November 4 Mulun Yin 20. Attaching a mollifier
21. The Littlewood lemma
22. The principal inequality
November 11 No meeting (Veterans Day)
November 18 Mulun Yin 23. Positive proportional of the critical zeros
24. The first moment of Dirichlet polynomials
25. The second moment of Dirichlet polynomials
November 25 No meeting (Thanksgiving)
December 2 David Nguyen 26. The diagonal terms
December 9 David Nguyen 27. The off-diagonal terms