Departmental Colloquium
David Marker
UIC
From model theory to Diophantine geometry
Abstract: In the 90s model theorists introduced the notion of
o-minimal geometry to find more general settings where results from
real algebraic geometry could be extended. In recent years these
ideas have found applications in Pila's work on the Andre-Oort
Conjecture. I will survey some of these ideas and Pila and Zannier's
application to give a new proof of the Manin-Mumford Conjecture.
Tea after 4 PM in the lounge on the 3rd floor of SEO
Friday October 16, 2015 at 3:00 PM in Lecture Center C4