Departmental Colloquium
Joe Harris
Harvard University
Uniformity of rational points on curves
Abstract: Faltings' theorem that there are only finitely many
solutions to a diophantine equation of genus 2 or more has naturally
led to speculation about possible extensions: how the theorem might
be generalized to higher dimensions, and how the number of solutions
behaves when we vary the coefficients of the problem, to name two. In
this talk we'll discuss some of these generalizations, and describe a
surprising logical connection between them.
Friday November 9, 2007 at 3:00 PM in SEO 636