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 * March 28th, Gagan Sekhon: "Galois properties of points of finite order of an elliptic curve"
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 . Abstract: I will be presenting a paper by Serre, which proves that the Galois group associated to points of finite order of an elliptic curve are "as big as possible". More concretely, given an elliptic curve E/K without complex multiplication, where K is a number field, the Galois representation associated to the action on p-torsion points of E is surjective for almost all but finitely many primes p.
 

The Arithmetics Statistic graduate seminar, organized by Gagan Sekhon and Jamie Weigandt , meets Mondays from 2 to 2:50 p.m.

The current tentative schedule is below.

Date

Speaker

Title

February 7th

February 14th

Daniel Kane

A problem related to the ABC conjecture

February 21st

NO MEETING

Washington's Birthday

February 28th

March 7th

Jamie Weigandt

Emperical Evidence for an Arithmetic Analog of Nevanlinna's Five Value Theorem

March 14th

Kevin Wilson

Elliptic curves of arbitrarily large rank( Over Function Fields)

March 21st

March 28th

April 4th

April 11th

NO MEETING

Workshop

April 18th

April 25th

May 2nd

May 9th

May 16th

Abstracts

  • February 14th, Daniel Kane: "A problem related to the ABC conjecture "
  • Abstract: The ABC conjecture says roughly that the equation A+B=C has no solutions among highly divisible relatively prime positive integers A,B,C. If we weaken what is meant by "highly divisible", there are solutions and we instead find conjectures on the asymptotic number of such solutions. In this talk we discuss techniques for extending the range in which these conjectures are known to be true.
  • March 7th, Jamie Weigandt: "Empirical Evidence for an Arithmetic Analogue of Nevanlinna's Five Value Theorem"
  • Abstract: Nevanlinna's five value theorem says that two meromorphic functions which take on five values at the same places must be identical. We discuss the Erdos-Woods conjecture, an arithmetic analogue of this theorem which arose from questions about divisibility asked by P. Erdos and questions about definability asked by J. Robinson. We discuss Langevin's proof that this conjecture would follow from the ABC conjecture and its connections with the arithmetic of elliptic curves. Using the arithmetic data gathered by the ABC@Home project, we give effective versions of Langevin's results and extend the related sequence A087914 on the OEIS.
  • March 14th, Kevin Wilson: "Elliptic curves of arbitrarily large rank"
  • Subtitle: Over Function Fields
  • Abstract: Ulrich constructed a family of elliptic curves over function fields which (provably!) attain arbitrarily large rank. I'll go over his construction and the facts about function fields which make proving such statements "easier".

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