Speaker: Dinesh Thakur
Date: July 23, 2015
Affiliation: University of Rochester, USA

Abstract: We will describe various results and conjectures on different aspects of the study of power sums of polynomials, and resulting applications to topics such as (i) zero distribution of zeta functions, (ii) multizeta relations and non-relations, (iii)variations of p-ranks of cyclotomic Jacobians, (iv)symmetries in distribution of primes