Elliptic Curves and Related Topics Seminar

·                     When and where? Every Wednesday 3:10-4p.m. at 118 Carver Hall.

·                     Besides topics on elliptic curves, we will discuss elliptic functions, algebraic curves, and possibly modular forms.

Spring2009 seminar schedule:

Date

Speaker

Title

Abstract

1-21-09

Ling Long

Congruences and supercongruences related to elliptic curves

We will mention some congruences related to Hasse-invariants of elliptic curves and one  conjecture on supercongruences.

1-28-09

Ling Long

Invariant Differential

 

2-4-09

Ling Long

The Tate Module

 

2-11-09

Ling Long

Weil Pairing

 

2-18-09

Ling Long

Formal groups of  elliptic curves I

 

2-25-09

Ling Long

Formal groups of elliptic curves II

 

3-4-09

Ling Long

Formal groups of elliptic curves III

 

3-11-09

Ling Long

The Weil Conjectures

 

3-25-09

Ling Long

Elliptic Curves over the field of complex numbers

 

4-1-09

 

(Please attend Henri Darmon's talk at 4:10p.m. April 2nd in 305 Carver)

 

4-8-09

Ling Long

Elliptic curves over local fields

 

4-15-09

Chris Kurth

Good and bad reductions

 

 

Fall 2008 talks