03/06/2004, 11:00 — 12:00 — Room P4.35, Mathematics Building
Carlos Florentino, Instituto Superior Técnico
Geometry and spectral theory of modular curves.
Modular curves and modular forms are defined, and used to describe
some important problems in geometry and number theory. We also
present some results about the spectrum of the Laplacian on these
algebraic curves, viewed as open Riemann surfaces.
