SEARCH Events Event Title: OR Speaker Last Name:    OR Year: (yyyy)

Mathematics Colloquium EVENT DETAIL Date:  Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Title:  Algebraic Points on Elliptic Curves Abstract:  The question of constructing rational and algebraic points on elliptic curves lies at the heart of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, one of the Clay Institute Millenium Prize problems. While algebraic points can behave erratically, they also appear to exhibit a surprising degree of order and regularity, reflecting deep patterns that are, at present, only incompletely understood. I will present a partial survey of what is known and what is conjectured about the behaviour of algebraic points on elliptic curves. Speaker:  Henri Darmon Institution:  McGill University   Back to current Colloquium List Back to UM Math seminars page .