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| * This summer project isn't funded by the normal REU program, so graduating seniors are eligible. * However, only US Citizens or Permanent Residents are eligible. |
* 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. |
2011 Mathematics REU at UW
June 20 - August 12, 2011
- Organizers: Jim Morrow (Inverse Problems) and William Stein (Elliptic Curves / Sage)
Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/uwmathreu
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
Wiles's article on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture which can be found on the Clay Mathematics Institute website
Stein's book (mainly Chapter 1)
Cremona's book (mainly Chapters 1 and 3)
Dembele-Voight: Explicit methods for Hilbert modular forms
Open Source Software: the Sage, Python, and Cython tutorials.
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.