Notice Board

Dr. Micah Milinovich 

University of Mississippi

Topic: An Introduction to the Riemann Hypothesis and Gaps between Primes

Abstract: There is a beautiful connection between the prime numbers and the zeros of Riemann zeta-function in the complex plane, and understanding the distribution of these zeros can lead to remarkable consequences in our understanding of the primes. A famous open problem, known as the Riemann Hypothesis, states that the non-real zeros of the Riemann zeta-function lie on a vertical line. I will motivate this conjecture, describe some evidence for it, and describe some of the consequences it would lead to in our understanding of the primes. In particular, I will describe how to bound on the maximum gap between prime numbers assuming the Riemann Hypothesis which is based on joint work with E. Carneiro (ICTP) and K. Soundararajan (Stanford).