Time: August 6, 2024, 2:00 pmPlace: Room 403, IMI - BASSpeaker: Prof. Mladen Dimitrov Brown  (University of Lille)Title: P-adic L-functions and the geometry of the EigencurveFurther information: https://icms.bg/p-adic-l-functions-and-the-geometry-of-the-eigencurve-talk-by-mladen-dimitrov/Abstract. For centuries, understanding special values of L-functions has been a significant research topic in number theory. Their study has been central to many celebrated pieces of mathematics, from Dirichlet’s theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions and the class number formula to the Riemann hypothesis and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer (BSD) conjecture, two of the famous millennium problems.The BSD conjecture predicts that the Mordell–Weil rank of an elliptic curve is given by the order of vanishing of its L-function the central point. Iwasawa theory, in turn, seeks to relate the arithmetic over the p-adic cyclotomic extension with the [...]