I'll talk about results on zeros of L-functions on the 1/2-line and problems that are just out of reach.

There will be no discussion of whether AI can solve the Riemann Hypothesis.

One of the most fundamental notions in group theory is the notion of the normal rank of a group. This is the smallest size of a set of elements, which if included in the set of relations, render the group trivial.  The smallest number of factors in the direct sum decomposition of the group abelianization provides a natural lower bound for the normal rank. The 1976 Wiegold problem on perfect groups asks whether there exist finitely generated perfect groups whose normal rank is greater than one. We demonstrate that free products of finitely generated perfect left orderable groups have normal rank greater than one. This solves the Wiegold problem in the affirmative, since a plethora of such examples exist.  This is joint work with Lvzhou Chen.

What is the second moment of a random smooth plane curve?  Is the multiset of eigenvalues of a random orthogonal matrix a Gaussian random variable? Is a random compact Riemann surface a Poisson process? In this talk, I will describe a categorified version of probability theory that makes these nonsense questions into precise mathematics and give some applications to the topology and arithmetic of moduli spaces in algebraic geometry. 

In this public talk, internationally acclaimed choreographer Reggie Wilson and math professor Jesse Wolfson will describe their decade+ collaboration exploring what math can do for dance and what dance can do for math.