SP Seminar @SISSA Via Bonomea 265, Wednesday 28 February at 11 - G. MUSSARDO

[CM Section]

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar

Kindly note the DAY - Wednesday

Wednesday 28 February at 11:00 a.m.
SISSA Via Bonomea 265, Room 128
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Speaker: G. MUSSARDO (SISSA)

Title: The Riemann Conjecture

Abstract:
In August 1859 the young and still little known Bernhard Riemann 
presented a paper
to the Berlin Academic titled 'On the number of primes less than a given 
quantity'.
In the middle of that paper, Riemann made a guess - remark or conjecture 
- on the
zeros of analytic function which controls the growth of the primes. 
Mathematics has never
been the same since.

The seminar presents the captive story behind this problem, which still 
remains one of the
most famous unsolvable problems in mathematics, and show how progress 
can be made
on its solution employing ideas and methods which come physics, i.e. 
from the stochastic
world of random walks and alike.