[iasmath-seminars] Reminder for today's Members' Seminar

[Anthony Pulido]

INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY
School of Mathematics
Princeton, NJ 08540

Members' Seminar
Monday, October 9

The Members' Seminar is a colloquium-style meeting with survey lectures 
addressed to a wide mathematical audience.  It meets weekly in S-101 at 
2:00 pm.  The first meeting is Monday October 9.


Topic: 		Analysis and topology on locally symmetric spaces
Speaker: 	Akshay Venkatesh, Stanford University; Distinguished Visiting 
Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 	2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101
Abstract Link:	http://www.math.ias.edu/seminars/abstract?event=129293

Locally symmetric spaces are a class of Riemannian manifolds which play 
a special role in number theory. In this talk, I will introduce these 
spaces through example, and show some of their unusual properties from 
the point of view of both analysis and topology. I will conclude by 
discussing their (still very mysterious) relationship with algebraic 
geometry.