Seungki Kim 10/4

[Jayadev Athreya]

Dear All,

The first NT seminar of the quarter will be Tuesday, 10/4, at 11am, in PDL C-401. 

Our speaker is Seungki Kim, from the University of Cincinnati.

Title: Lattice problems and the Siegel/Rogers integral formula

Abstract: This talk is an introduction to the classical lattice problems of sphere packing and covering in arbitrarily high dimensions, and the Siegel and Rogers integral formula developed in the 1940-50's to study them. They still remain as one of the strongest approaches to the family of such problems, and the records established back then remain unbeaten to this day. I present some past and recent works in the literature, as well as a few works of mine, that are in some sense reflections on the difficulty of these problems.

Jayadev Athreya

Professor of Mathematics

Professor of the Comparative History of Ideas

University of Washington

co-Director, International

Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences