Algebraic Dynamics Seminar at Harvard
We meet in Room 232 of the Science Center, usually on Thursdays at 4pm. Seminars are typically two hours long, with a break in the middle and the second hour for more details. Please email me (Laura DeMarco) if you are interested in joining the email list, so I can send you announcements. The math department is locked, so let me know if you are not from Harvard but would like to attend a lecture.
Next talk:
Monday and Tuesday, November 25 (4-5:30pm in Room 232) and November 26 (4:15-5:30pm in Room 310)
Jit Wu Yap (Harvard University)
Title: Quantitative arithmetic equidistribution
Abstract: For an endomorphism F of projective space P^N (or for any polarized endomorphism of a smooth projective variety) defined over a number field, there is a canonical height function on P^N whose zeroes are the preperiodic points. It is known, by a theorem of Xinyi Yuan (2008), that the Galois orbits of sequences of points with small height will uniformly distribute to the equilibrium measure of F. In these two talks, we work through details of a proof of a new, quantitative version of this result and present various applications of this stronger form of equidistribution.
Fall 2024
August 29. Caroline Davis, Indiana University
September 18. Jit Wu Yap, Harvard University, in Number Theory Seminar
October 3. Sina Saleh, Harvard University
October 10. Malavika Mukundan, Boston University
November 7. Alex Kapiamba, Harvard University
November 25-26. Jit Wu Yap, Harvard
December 3 (Tuesday). Myrto Mavraki, University of Toronto, in BC-MIT Number Theory seminar at Boston College