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June 20 - August 12, 2011
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 * Inverse problems page: http://www.math.washington.edu/~reu/  * [[https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dGprbTlmSFI5c250bTk3SXdBcmlzU1E6MQ#gid=0|Application Form]]
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 * Elliptic curves / Sage page: (coming soon)  * [[http://www.math.washington.edu/~reu/|Inverse problems page]]


== Elliptic Curves ==

The elliptic curves REU will consist of projects involving elliptic curves, modular forms, and databases, and make extensive use of [[http://sagemath.org|Sage]]. It will be organized by William Stein, and the number theory postdoc Jon Bober and grad students Alyson Deines and Simon Spicer will also likely help out. There will be about 6 students.

=== Pre-REU Reading List ===

   * Wiles's article on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture which can be found [[http://www.claymath.org/millennium/Birch_and_Swinnerton-Dyer_Conjecture/|on the Clay Mathematics Institute website]]
   * Tate's [[attachment:Tate-The_Arithmetic_of_Elliptic_Curves.pdf|beautiful 1974 article on elliptic curves]]
   * Stein's [[http://wstein.org/books/modform/|book (mainly Chapter 1)]]
   * Cremona's [[http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~masgaj/book/fulltext/|book (mainly Chapters 1 and 3)]]
   * Dembele-Voight: [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.5727|Explicit methods for Hilbert modular forms]]
   * Open Source Software: the [[http://www.sagemath.org/doc/tutorial/|Sage]], [[http://docs.python.org/tutorial/|Python]], and [[http://docs.cython.org/index.html|Cython]] tutorials.
   * Silverman's book [[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Z90CA_EUCCkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=silverman+arithmetic+of+elliptic+curves&source=bl&ots=3L0giqRd_4&sig=lDT89Z1h7q1wQy8mgtuQ59xJWfE&hl=en&ei=DjG-TeraIciv8gPH_oXYBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false|The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves]] is very generally relevant.

=== Topics may include ===

   * Computing tables of elliptic curves over the field $\mathbf{Q}(\sqrt{5})$, e.g., as described [[http://wstein.org/talks/2011-02-11-sqrt5/|in this talk]], along with extensive data related to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture about each curve. This will involve both theoretical work and coding projects.

   * Computing additional data about elliptic curves over $\mathbf{Q}$, thus extending the data in http://db.modform.org/

   * Computing tables of modular forms (see [[http://wstein.org/books/modform/|my book]]).

   * Helping John Cremona to extend his [[http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~masgaj/ftp/data/|highly influential tables]].
  

2011 Mathematics REU at UW

June 20 - August 12, 2011

Elliptic Curves

The elliptic curves REU will consist of projects involving elliptic curves, modular forms, and databases, and make extensive use of Sage. It will be organized by William Stein, and the number theory postdoc Jon Bober and grad students Alyson Deines and Simon Spicer will also likely help out. There will be about 6 students.

Pre-REU Reading List

Topics may include

  • Computing tables of elliptic curves over the field \mathbf{Q}(\sqrt{5}), e.g., as described in this talk, along with extensive data related to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture about each curve. This will involve both theoretical work and coding projects.

  • Computing additional data about elliptic curves over \mathbf{Q}, thus extending the data in http://db.modform.org/

  • Computing tables of modular forms (see my book).

  • Helping John Cremona to extend his highly influential tables.

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