Conference on Harmonic Analysis and Related Topics

All talks in green will be delivered at the Main Room (Salón de Actos) of the Math Building (Facultad de Matemáticas, click here for a map).

* T. Tao will deliver one extra lecture not included in the official program of our conference. This lecture will be hosted by the Real Academia Sevillana de Ciencias and delivered at the Paraninfo de la Universidad de Sevilla located at the Main Building of the University of Seville (check a map here).

Title: Structure and Randomness in the prime numbers
Abstract: "God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers"- Paul Erdös

The prime numbers are a fascinating blend of both structure (for instance, almost all primes are odd) and randomness. It is widely believed that beyond the "obvious" structures in the primes, the primes otherwise behave as if they were distributed randomly; this "pseudorandomness" then underlies our belief in many unsolved conjectures about the primes, from the twin prime conjecture to the Riemann hypothesis. This pseudorandomness has been frustratingly elusive to actually prove rigorously, but recently there has been progress in capturing enough of this pseudorandomness to establish new results about the primes, such as the fact that they contain arbitrarily long progressions. We survey some of these developments in this talk.