Databases and Discovery in Arithmetic

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<h2>This lecture is part of the Discovering Mathematics Through Computers Presidential Lecture Series in Mathematics and Computer Science</h2>

Arithmetic geometry is at the heart of pure mathematics, and modern computing power and algorithms are transforming the field. Massive parallel computations are now routinely used to construct large data sets and solve long-standing open problems. At the same time, sites like the L-Functions and Modular Forms Database are resources for anyone curious about number theory. Such databases also offer training data for machine-learning approaches to research problems.In this Presidential Lecture, Brendan Hassett will survey how such datasets are created and maintained, their value to the community, the potential for future breakthroughs and implications for the future of mathematical research.

<a href="https://www.math.brown.edu/bhassett/" title="https://www.math.brown.edu/bhassett/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Brendan Hassett</a> joined the Brown University faculty in 2015 and became director of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics in 2016. His research is in algebraic geometry, the study of geometric objects defined as solutions to polynomial equations. Brendan has written 75 research papers and authored or co-edited eight books. He chaired the Rice University mathematics department from 2009 to 2014. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Brendan received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1996 and spent four years at the University of Chicago as a Dickson Instructor and NSF postdoctoral fellow.

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