Departmental Colloquium
Ted Chinburg
University of Pennsylvania
Finiteness theorems in arithmetic geometry
Abstract: I'll begin this talk by describing
some famous finiteness theorems and conjectures.
These were motivated in part trying to carry
out certain kinds of calculations, e.g. by trying
to describe explicitly all the rational points on an elliptic
curve. I'll then describe a new finiteness problem which
arises from studying deformations of complexes
of modules for Galois groups.
Friday March 13, 2009 at 3:00 PM in SEO 636