Lattices and Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups: Geometric and Computational Viewpoints

gr.group-theory gt.geometric-topology nt.number-theory
Start Date
2021-10-03 
End Date
2021-10-08 
Institution
Banff International Research Station 
City
Banff, AB 
Country
Canada 
Meeting Type
conference 
Homepage
https://www.birs.ca/events/2021/5-day-workshops/21w5205 
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Description

A lattice is a discrete collection of regularly ordered points in space. Lattices are everywhere around us, from the patterned stacked arrangements of fruits and vegetables at the grocery to the regular networks of atoms in crystalline compounds. Today lattices find applications throughout mathematics and the sciences, applications ranging from chemistry to cryptography and Wi-Fi networks.

The focus of this meeting is the connections between lattices and number theory and geometry. Number theory, one of the oldest branches of pure mathematics, is devoted to the study properties of the integers and more sophisticated number systems. Lattices and number theory have many deep connections. For instance using number theory it was recently demonstrated that certain packings of balls in high dimensions are optimally efficient. Lattices also appear naturally when one studies certain spaces that play an important role in number theory; one of the main focuses of this meeting is to investigate computational and theoretical methods to understand such spaces and to expand the frontier of our algorithmic knowledge in working with them.

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