# Queen's University - Department of Mathematics and Statistics

 Wednesday, June 21 Number Theory Seminar Time: 11:00 a.m. Place: Jeffery 422 Speaker: Arunabha Biswas Title: A few comments on higher Mahler measure of $P_n(z):=(z^n-1)/(z-1)$ Abstract Attached Thursday, June 22 Curves Seminar Time: 1:30 p.m. Place: Jeffery 422 Speaker: Mike Roth Title: Examples V Abstract Attached

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Wednesday, June 21, 11:00 a.m. Jeffery 422 - Number Theory Seminar

Speaker: Arunabha Biswas

Title: A few comments on higher Mahler measure of $P_n(z):=(z^n-1)/(z-1)$

Abstract: I shall discuss a few known results about higher Mahler measure of $P_n$ and motivation behind a conjecture about the generating function of $P_n$.

Thursday, June 22, 1:30 p.m. Jeffery 422 - Curves Seminar

Speaker: Mike Roth

Title: Examples V

Abstract: We will finish the example of d points in P^1, up to projective automorphisms.

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