General Seminar
March 13, 2007, 03:30 pm, Tuesday
Hursit Onsiper
Department of Mathematics, METU
Transcendental numbers and Riemann surfaces
This will be a very elementary expository talk on the transcendence of the values of certain analytic functions. Building on the classical results about the solutions of differential equations, we will try to explain Lang's conjecture concerning the covering maps of Riemann surfaces.