Choose Your Own Adventure: L-functions and Randomness

by Eric Perlmutter (IPhT Saclay)

Tuesday 28 Oct 2025, 14:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

4/2-037 - TH meeting room (CERN)

You are lost in the cold, dark space of two-dimensional conformal field theories. In the distance beckons a shimmering light, fluctuating chaotically and randomly. You move toward the light, but a blinding fog rolls in. Feeling around on the ground, you stumble upon an L-function. Then another. Then another. Picking one up, it feels heavy, and a little slippery, but seems to make the fog dissipate. You carry on, L-function in hand, uncertain but resolute... What happens next? It all depends on the choices you make. How does it end? Only you can find out!