Promotion Talk - Professor Riad Masri

Date: September 21, 2018

Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM

Location: BLOC 220

Speaker: Professor Riad Masri, Texas A&M University

Description:

Title: The Chowla-Selberg formula

Abstract:
In the 1940's, Chowla and Selberg discovered an identity relating values of Dedekind's eta function at algebraic numbers to values of the Gamma function at rational numbers. This identity, now called the Chowla-Selberg formula, has since played an important role in number theory. In this talk, I will describe the Chowla-Selberg formula, and explain how it can be generalized to higher-dimensions.