Tags: Seminars

  First talk at 4:00 by Jennifer Balakrishnan (Boston University) A tale of three curves We will describe variants of the Chabauty--Coleman methodand quadratic Chabauty to determine rational points on curves. In so doing, we will highlight some recent examples where the techniques have been used: this includes a problem of Diophantus originally solved by Wetherell and the problem of the "cursed curve", the split Cartan modular curve of…
Title: The least degree of a CM point on a modular curve Abstract: We discuss upper and lower bounds on the least degree of a CM point on various modular curves. This is joint work with Tyler Genao, Paul Pollack and Freddy Saia.