In a remarkable coincidence, I'm giving two talks on Maass forms today (after not giving any talks for 3 months). One of these was a chalk talk (or rather camera on pen on paper talk). My other talk can be found at /static/Talks/ComputingMaass20/.
In this talk, I briefly describe how one goes about computing Maass forms for congruence subgroups of $\mathrm{SL}(2)$. This is a short and pointed exposition of ideas mostly found in papers of Hejhal and Fredrik Strömberg's PhD thesis. More precise references are included at the end of the talk.
This amounts to a description of the idea of Hejhal's algorithm on a congruence subgroup.
Side notes on revealjs
I decided to experiment a bit with this talk. This is not a TeX-Beamer talk (as is most common for math) — instead it's a revealjs talk. I haven't written a revealjs talk before, but it was surprisingly easy.
It took me more time than writing a beamer talk, most likely because I don't have a good workflow with reveal and there were several times when I wanted to use nontrivial javascript capabilities. In particular, I wanted to have a few elements transition from one slide to the next (using the automatic transition capabilities).
At first, I had thought I would write in an intermediate markup format and then translate this into revealjs, but I quickly decided against that plan. The composition stage was a bit more annoying.
But I think the result is more appealing than a beamer talk, and it's sufficiently interesting that I'll revisit it later.
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