Mini-course @ IPM

Dr. Sajad Salami from Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil will give a mini-course on “Elliptic curves: arithmetic and computations“. There will be a total of 10 lectures given on six days. Here are the details (each item is 2 lectures):

  1. Basics of elliptic curves over perfect fields
  2. Elliptic curves over finite fields and applications
  3. Heights and Mordell-Weil theorem
  4. The ranks and the birch and Swinerton-Dyer conjecture
  5. Computations on elliptic curves with Pari/GP and SAGE

Classes will take place on 20-22 Mordaad (11-13 August 2018) and 5-7 Shahrivar 1397 (27-29 August 2018).

Class time

The course will take place (as before) on Wednesdays at IPM, Lecture Hall 1, from 10 to 12.

Number Theory Seminar @ IPM

Oliver Bültel from Münster will give a talk on Saturday, July 14 at 2 pm. The title is “G-Displays and Rapoport-Zink Spaces”. Click here for more information.

Resume

We will resume our reading course on Wednesday, July 18. We will meet at 10 am. We are going to talk about the plan of the course and some other organizational matters. So, if you want to participate in the course, please try to be present.

Student reading group on algebraic geometry

Ehsan Shahosseini together with some other students are organizing a reading group on algebraic geometry. They are going to read the book “Algebraic Geometry I, Schemes” by U. Görtz and T. Wedhorn.

Pause

I will be away for about two months. We will resume our reading course once I’m back. In the meanwhile, some of the students in the class will try to learn some algebraic geometry.

Finished book 2

Today we finished the second book from our reading material, i.e., Number Theory 2: Introduction to Class Field Theory, by K. Kato, N. Kurokawa and T. Saito.