If you have suggestions or requests email Eugenia at rosu [at] math.berkeley.edu or Shelly at shellym [at] math.berkeley.edu.
In the Fall 2013 semester, we will be reading Faltings' proof of the Mordell conjecture following the notes of Darmon, followed by several papers related to the topic.
| Date |
Topic | Speaker |
| 9/12 |
Introductory talk | Shelly |
| 9/19 |
Etale morphisms and the Chevalley–Weil theorem | Andrew D |
| 9/26 |
The Shafarevich conjecture I | Eugenia |
| 10/3 |
The Shafarevich conjecture II | Eugenia |
| 10/10 |
TBA | Sunny |
| 10/17 |
The isogeny conjecture | Shelly |
| 10/24 |
TBA | Khoa |
| 10/31 |
TBA | Watson |
| 11/7 |
TBA | Andrew N |
| 11/14 |
TBA | Peter |
| 11/21 |
TBA | Will |
| 12/5 |
TBA | Will |
References:
[D] H. Darmon, Rational points on curves, Arithmetic Geometry (Clay Mathematics Proceedings), CMI/AMS publication, 2009.