Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar:

In this talk we report on some research projects from summer 2017 supported by NSERC-USRA. In the first part of the project, we surveyed all existing explicit results from the past 60 years on prime counting functions, with a special focus on theta(x) (counting log p for each prime p less than or equal to x).  In the second part, we provided new bounds for the Chebyshev function psi(x) based on a recent zero density result for the zeros of the Riemann zeta function (due to Kadiri-Lumley-Ng). Finally, we have established the current best results for the prime counting function theta(x) for various ranges of x.

(Joint work with Noah Christensen, Allysa Lumley, and Nathan Ng)