Fields Academy Shared Graduate Course: Probability and Number Theory
Instructor: Prof. Ram Murty
Email: murty@queensu.ca
Registration Deadline: January 17th, 2022
Lecture Times: Mondays and Wednesdays | 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Course Dates: January 10th - April 6th, 2022
Mid-Semester Break: February 21st - 25th, 2022
Grading: The final grade will be based on a take home mid-term test and a take home final exam.
Registration Fee: PSU Students - FREE | Other Students - $100
Course Overview
After reviewing basic probability theory and number theory needed for the course, we will develop ideas that lead to the celebrated Erdos-Kac theorem in a general context. We will also look at probabilistic Galois theory and briefly at arithmetic statistics.
