Akshay Venkatesh Lectures at HUJI – Ostrowski’s Prize Celebration, January 24&25

Thursday January 25, 14:15-15:45 Ostrowski’s prize ceremony and Akshay Venkatesh’s prize lecture: Period maps and Diophantine problems

Followed by a Basic notion lecture by Frank Calegary 16:30-17:45: The cohomology of arithmetic groups and Langlands program

Wednesday January 24, 18:00-17:00: Akshay Venkatesh lectures on Cryptography and the geometry of algebraic equations. Lecture accessible also to second and third year undergraduate students.