Departmental Colloquium

Date: April 18, 2024

Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM

Location: BLOC 302

Speaker: Henri Moscovici

Title: Can one hear the zeros of zeta?

Abstract: Preceding by a half-century the well-known challenge “Can one hear the shape of a drum?” a similar dare was raised relative to the Riemann Hypothesis, which in contemporary parlance goes by the name of “Hilbert-Polya operator”. Very recently Alain Connes worked out the heat expansion for such an operator, assuming its existence. After presenting his results I will discuss the connection with our joint work on the square-root of the prolate spheroidal wave operator, whose spectrum simulates the zeros of Zeta.