Elliptic Curves
During the Spring semester of 2017, a few graduate students and I decided to go through Silverman's The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves. We meet on Mondays in LeConte 317S from 2-3pm.
The notes included here contain a rough sketch of our informal discussions.
| Date | Topic | Presenter | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/18 | Projective Space & Projective Varieties | Alicia Lamarche | (pdf) |
| 1/23 | Projective Curves, Bezout's Theorem, Elliptic Curves | Alicia Lamarche | (pdf) |
| 1/23 | Maps between curves | Kevin Sheng | - |
| 2/6 | Maps between curves | Kevin Sheng | - |
| 2/15 | Cancelled | - | - |
| 2/20 | Elliptic Curves over $\mathbb C$ | Jeremiah Southwick | (pdf) |
| 2/27 | Research & Related Topics | Alex Duncan | - |
| 3/6 | Spring Break | - | - |
| 3/13 | Cancelled | - | - |
| 3/20 | Elliptic Functions | Rob Vandermolen | (pdf) |
| 3/27 | Fun Generalization(s) | Rob Vandermolen | (pdf) |
| 4/3 | Elliptic Curves over Finite Fields | Alicia Lamarche | (pdf) |
| 4/10 | Weil Conjectures | Alicia Lamarche | - |