Speaker: 

Ralph Greenberg

Institution: 

University of Washington

Time: 

Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 3:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

The p-adic L-function attached to an elliptic curve with split, multiplicative reduction at the prime p will vanish at s=1. This is an example of what we call a "trivial zero." This talk will outline the way that Glenn Stevens and I proved a formula for the derivative at s=1 for that function.