School of Mathematics

Atle Selberg

Memorial Program

in Honor of His

Life & Work

January 11-12, 2008




Friday, January 11

Scientific Talks

3:00 PM
Peter Goddard, Director
Welcome

Kannan Soundararajan

Selberg’s Contributions to the Theory of Riemann Zeta
Function and Dirichlet L-Functions


4:00 PM
Tea Break, Fuld Hall Common Room

4:30 PM
John Friedlander
Selberg and the Sieve; a Positive Approach


Saturday, January 12

Scientific Talks
Moderated by Robert P. Langlands, Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematics

10:30 AM
Henryk Iwaniec
Spectral Theory of Automorphic Forms and its Impact on Analytic Number Theory

11:20 AM
James Arthur
Recent History of the Trace Formula

12:00 PM
Peter Sarnak
The Selberg Integral, Rankin Selberg Method, Arithmeticity,…

12:30 PM
Lunch Available in Dining Hall

Life and Work

Moderated by Peter Goddard, Director

2:00 PM
Enrico Bombieri
Prime Numbers from Eratosthenes to Selberg

2:40 PM
Remembrances/Tributes
Kai-Man Tsang
Dorian Goldfeld
Brian Conrey

3:15 PM
Break

3:35 PM
Remembrances/Tributes
Dennis Hejhal
Erik Hjorth-Hansen
Betty Compton Selberg
Ingrid Selberg
Lars Selberg
Nils Baas
Peter Goddard

5:30 PM
Reception, Dining Hall

All talks will take place in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute's campus.


Registration


For additional questions regarding the Atle Selberg Memorial, please email
selbergmem@ias.edu or call 609-951-4595

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