Recent progress towards Malle’s conjecture

Name: Recent progress towards Malle’s conjecture
Start: 2025-10-15T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-15T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Science Center 507

SEMINARS, SEMINARS: NUMBER THEORY

When: October 15, 2025

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Where: Science Center 507

Address: 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Speaker: Brandon Alberts (Eastern Michigan University)

Malle’s conjecture concerns the asymptotic number of $G$-extensions with bounded discriminant. We will discuss some of the more recent results in this direction, including inductive methods, multivariable Dirichlet series, and a ”twisted” version of Malle’s conjecture.