Habiba Kadiri | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

Professor of Mathematics, University of Lethbridge

Dr. Kadiri received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in mathematics from the Université de Bordeaux I and then a Ph.D. in Mathematics (2002) from Université de Lille I in France. She went onto a postdoctoral position at the Université de Montréal before starting her current position at the Université of Lethbridge in 2007. She was Associate Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (2018-2020). Her research lies in analytic number theory: she investigates questions related to the Riemann Hypothesis by using a combination of analytical and computational methods (location and count of zeros of various L-functions) and their applications towards long-standing conjectures about prime numbers. Her NSERC grants have supported the training of numerous students and postdoctoral fellows. Her involvement with PIMS started before Lethbridge’s full affiliation with it, with the 2012 Canadian Number Theory Association Meeting. Since then, she has been initiating and running a number of PIMS activities, such as the Lethbridge Distinguished Speaker Series, the Alberta Number Theory Days events at BIRS, the 2021 Summer School on Inclusive Paths Toward Number Theory, or more recently the 2023 Woman in Math Day. Currently, she is co-leading the activities, postdocs, and projects of the PIMS Collaborative Research Group "L-Functions and Analytic Number Theory." (2022-2025). She has also been a strong advocate for women in mathematics and science, and chaired the Canadian Mathematical Society EDI Committee from 2021‐2022.

Dr. Kadiri has been a member of the PIMS Board of Directors since 2023.

This talk will first provide a (non-exhaustive) survey of explicit results on zero-free regions and zero densities of the Riemann zeta function and their relationship to error terms in the prime number theorem. This will be extended to Dirichlet L...

The “Comparative Prime Number Theory” symposium is one of the highlight events organized by the PIMS-funded Collaborative Research Group (CRG) “ L-functions in Analytic Number Theory”. It is a one-week event taking place on the UBC campus in...

In this talk we present some new Chebyshev bounds for the function psi(x). In 1962, Rosser and Schoenfeld provided a method to estimate the error term in the approximation |psi(x)-x|. Since then, progress on the numerical verification of the Riemann...

The prime number theorem, proven in 1896, is one of the first major theorems in analytic number theory. It provides estimates for prime counting functions. In 1962, Rosser and Schoenfeld gave a method to estimate the error term in the approximation...

Let L/K be a Galois extension of number fields with Galois group G, and let C⊂G be a conjugacy class. Attached to each unramified prime ideal p in OK is the Artin symbol σp, a conjugacy class in G. In 1922 Chebotarev established what is referred to...