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Some Recent Progress on Probabilistic Number Theory
Organizers
Taiwang Deng , Sergei Oblezin , Dongming She
Speaker
Max Wenqiang Xu
Time
Thursday, September 17, 2026 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Venue
A3-4-301
Online
Zoom 435 529 7909 (BIMSA)
Abstract
I will describe some progress on probabilistic number theory in the last couple of years. It mainly focuses on connections between distribution of character sums, L-function statistics, and Gaussian multiplicative chaos.
Speaker Intro
Max Wenqiang Xu is currently an associate professor at the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, and the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications. He was a Simons Junior Fellow at the Simons Foundation and has held positions at MSRI Berkeley and the Courant Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2024 under the supervision of Jacob Fox and Kannan Soundararajan. His research lies at the interface of number theory, combinatorics, and probability.