Tschinkel to lecture 4/28 at Atkin Workshop.
Yuri Tschinkel (NYU, Simons Institute) will give the opening lecture of the 2017 Atkin Workshop.
Tschinkel's lecture Height Zeta Functions will be given on Friday April 28, at 3:00 in Lecture Center A1.
The Workshop continues Saturday and Sunday.
The annual Atkin Memorial Lecture is aimed at remembering Oliver Atkin's lasting contributions to mathematics and the University of Illinois.
A.O.L (Oliver) Atkin, a noted mathematician of international fame and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, died on December 23, 2008 at the age of 83. He made lasting contributions to the theory of numbers: the theory of modular forms (Atkin-Lehner operators, congruences, modular forms for non-congruences groups), theory of partitions, and cryptography (Schoof-Elkies-Atkin Algorithm), among others. He was also a pioneer of the use of computers in mathematics. He was born in England and worked at Bletchley Park in World War II. He completed his doctorate at Cambridge in 1952 under John Littlewood. He joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1972. Atkin remained mathematically active until his death.