Oct. 29, 2004, Friday, 4:40 p.m.

Vincent 364

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"Periods, equidistribution, and subconvex bounds for L-functions"

A. Venkatesh, M.I.T.

I will discuss some connections between the topics of the title: in
particular, the role of equidistribution theorems in proving bounds
for periods. This yields in many cases "interesting" bounds on
L-functions.  These bounds can sometimes be used to prove further
equidistribution theorems (e.g., equidistribution of Heegner points
over totally real fields).

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