NAS Seminar, Feb. 2: Connection Between Geometry and Number Theory

The monthly NAS Seminars will feature UW-Green Bay Prof. Mark Norfleet for this week’s NAS Seminar — Friday, Feb. 2 with 3 p.m. refreshments in ES 317 and the 3:30 p.m. presentation in ES 301. His topic is “Connection Between Geometry and Number Theory.” The presentation description follows: “There are multiple models of the hyperbolic plane; we will look at geodesics (lines) in the upper half plane model, the hyperboloid model, and the conformal disk model. An important tessellation of the hyperbolic plane in upper half plane model will help build connections to number theory. After a brief discussion of Dedekind sums, a geometric formulation of the Rademacher function will  enable us to calculate Dedekind sums. We will conclude with some of my current work using the connection between the geometry of the hyperbolic plane and number theory.”