Tag Archives: Simon Marshall

ArXiv x 3

Posted on March 4, 2022 by Persiflage

Three recent arXiv preprints this week caught my interest and seemed worth mentioning here. The first is a paper by Oscar Randal-Williams, which considers (among other things) the cohomology of congruence subgroups of \(\mathrm{SL}_N(\mathbf{Z})\) in the stable range. This is … Continue reading →

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Counting solutions to a_p = λ, Part II

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Persiflage

This is a sequel to this post where the problem of counting eigenforms with \(a_p = \lambda\) and \(\lambda \ne 0\) was considered. Here we report on recent progress in the case \(\lambda = 0\). It is a somewhat notorious … Continue reading →

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Graduation Day

Posted on November 26, 2017 by Persiflage

This last summer, I undertook my last official activity as a faculty member at Northwestern University, namely, graduation day! (I had a 0% courtesy appointment for two years until my last Northwestern students graduated.) Here I am with four of … Continue reading →

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