Joseph Najnudel
August 3, 2017 Thursday
15:00-16:00 (Math) 17:00-17:45 (Music)
Astro-Math Building,
National Taiwan University
Joseph Najnudel was a student in École Nomale Supérieure and he received his Ph.D. in probability theory from University Paris 6. He is now holding positions at Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse
Université Paul Sabatier and
University of Cincinnati. Besides his roll as a mathematician, Joseph is also a professional musician. He earned a diploma from Conservatory of Paris, where he obtained several prizes and awards. He is regularly doing concerts of classical music, and has composed many works for piano. Joseph was one of only two French mathematicians to win two gold medals in the International Math Olympiad. One of his gold medals was obtained in Taipei, Taiwan in
1998 (so this is his second visit to Taiwan).
15:00-16:00 (Room 722)
On random holomorphic functions associated to random matrices and the Riemann zeta function
(Based on Joseph’s recent work in Inventiones Math.)
17:00-17:45 (Lobby, 5th Floor)
Beethoven: Moonlight sonata.Debussy: The Submerged Cathedral.
Chopin: Barcarolle
Maybe a little bit of Joseph’s own composition as extra at the end...
A French in Taipei
Mathematician &
Musician
Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica (Math) and Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan University (Music)
