Professor Matilde Lalín (University of Montreal, Canada) will present a lecture titled " A moment with L-functions" as part of the ADVANCE Distinguished Lecture Series (ADLS), sponsored by the K-State Office for the Advancement of Women in Science and Engineering (KAWSE).

Abstract: The Riemann zeta function plays a central role in our understanding of the prime numbers. In this talk we will review some of its amazing properties as well as properties of other similar functions, the Dirichlet L-functions. We will then see how the method of moments can help us in the study of L-functions and some surprising properties of their values. Finally, we will discuss some recent results about L-functions associated with cubic characters.