In this lecture, which is part of the Asprey Distinguished Lecture Series, We survey some of the recent developments in the understanding of prime numbers in the last two decades, including rigorous results on small and large gaps between the primes; local Fourier uniformity (and higher order Fourier uniformity) on the primes; new zero density estimates; and tantalizing progress towards the Chowla conjecture, and possibly even the twin prime conjecture.

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Sponsored by the Mathematics & Statistics Department.

This event is open to the public.