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Graduate Student Seminar 1999-2000
Organizers: Henri Darmon and Eyal Goren
Times:
Friday 2:00-3:00 at McGill Burnside Hall 1234
Syllabus: The graduate student seminar is an
informal seminar which will meet
once a week. It is primarily intended for students specializing, or
intending to specialize in, algebraic geometry and/or number theory, but
everyone is welcome to attend.
Grading Scheme: There will be no assignments, and no grade.
Students are expected to give the lectures and to participate in the
discussions during the seminar.
Schedule of the seminar in
1996-97.
Schedule of the seminar in
1997-98.
Schedule for 1999-2000
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Friday, September 17:
Organizational meeting.
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Friday, September 24:
Henri Darmon. An Overview of Faltings's proof.
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Friday, October 1:
Andrew Archibald. Topological classification of curves.
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Friday, October 8:
Daniel Segal. Curves of genus 0: the Hasse-Minkowski theorem.
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Friday, October 15:
Daniel Segal. Curves of genus 0, cont'd.
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Friday, October 22:
Pierre-Alexandre Tremblay. Riemann surfaces and the Abel-Jacobi theorem.
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Friday, October 29:
Pierre-Alexandre Tremblay. Cont'd.
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Friday, November 5:
Lorna McNair. Elliptic curves and the Mordell-Weil theorem.
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Friday, November 12:
Lorna McNair. Cont'd.
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Friday, November 19:
Eyal Goren. Maps between curves and the de Franchis-Severi Theorem.
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Friday, November 26:
Eyal Goren. Cont'd.
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Friday, December 3:
Lorna McNair. Siegel's Theorem and the Shafarevich conjecture.