PIMS CRG Seminar Series: L-functions in Analytic Number Theory: Ayla Gafni

  • Date: 10/27/2022
Speaker(s):
Ayla Gafni, University of Mississippi
Location: 

Hybrid

Topic: 

Uniform distribution and geometric incidence theory

Description: 

The Szemeredi-Trotter Incidence Theorem, a central result in geometric combinatorics, bounds the number of incidences between n points and m lines in the Euclidean plane. Replacing lines with circles leads to the unit distance problem, which asks how many pairs of points in a planar set of n points can be at a unit distance. The unit distance problem breaks down in dimensions 4 and higher due to degenerate configurations that attain the trivial bound. However, nontrivial results are possible under certain structural assumptions about the point set. In this talk, we will give an overview of the history of these and other incidence results. Then we will introduce a quantitative notion of uniform distribution and use that property to obtain nontrivial bounds on unit distances and point-hyperplane incidences in higher-dimensional Euclidean space. This is based on joint work with Alex Iosevich and Emmett Wyman.

 

This event is part of the PIMS CRG Group on L-Functions in Analytic Number Theory. More details can be found on the webpage here: https://sites.google.com/view/crgl-functions/crg-weekly-seminar

Organizers:

Kübra Benli, Institut Élie Cartan de Lorraine

Fatma Çiçek, University of Northern British Columbia

Ertan Elma, University of Lethbridge

Other Information: 

The online seminars for the PIMS CRG L-functions in Analytic Number Theory will take place on Thursdays, 10–11 am Pacific Time/11 am–noon Mountain Time.

 

 

If you would like to attend the seminars, please register to receive the Zoom link.

 

 

You are also welcome to join us in person at our “watch parties”:

 

UBC–Vancouver: room ESB 4127

 

University of Lethbridge: M1060 (Markin Hall)

 

University of Northern British Columbia: 1084 Charles J McCaffray Hall