Short Bio: Professor  Dongbin Xiu received his Ph.D degree from Division of Applied Mathematics of Brown University in 2004. He joined the Department of Mathematics of Purdue University in 2005. In 2013, he moved to the University of Utah as a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute. In 2016, He moved to The Ohio State University as Professor of Mathematics and Ohio Eminent Scholar. He received NSF CAREER award in 2007 and was elected to...

Title: Number theory and cryptography Speaker: Yangbo Ye Time, April 17, 3:30 MLH118 Category:  Faculty colloquium Abstract:  In this presentation Professor Ye will survey his work and progress in number theory since his last colloquium talk in the department. Topics include the Riemann zeta function, automorphic L-functions, their functoriality, upper bounds, and zero statistics, computational number theory, and its applications to cyberspace security or insecurity.   Short Bio...