All talks will be at the Biology/Physics Building Room 131 (BPB 131), and the coffee breaks will be outside of BPB 131. A campus map pointing to BPB can be found here (Google labels the building as the “Dept of Physics”).
Tentative Schedule:
Time | Event |
9:00 – 9:55 | Coffee/tea, bagels, and fruit |
9:55 – 10:00 | Welcome to UConn |
10:00 – 10:50 | Talk 1: Keith Conrad – Using elliptic curves |
11:10 – 12:00 | Talk 2: Filip Najman – Mordell-Weil groups of elliptic curves over number fields |
12:00 – 12:10 | Group photo |
12:10 – 2:00 | Lunch break |
2:00 – 2:50 | Talk 3: David E. Rohrlich – Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer with twist |
2:50 – 3:10 | Coffee/tea break |
3:10 – 4:00 | Talk 4: Noam Elkies – Elliptic curves and surfaces, and their Mordell-Weil groups |
4:20 – 5:10 | Talk 5: Rob Benedetto – Elliptic curves over p-adic fields |
5:45 – 7:45 | Banquet on campus |
Titles and Abstracts:
The titles are below, and the abstracts can be found here.
- Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut), 10 – 10:50.
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Title: Using elliptic curves
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- Filip Najman (University of Zagreb), 11:10 – 12.
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Title: Mordell-Weil groups of elliptic curves over number fields
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- David E. Rohrlich (Boston University), 2 – 2:50.
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Title: Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer with twist
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- Noam Elkies (Harvard University), 3:10 – 4.
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Title: Elliptic curves and surfaces, and their Mordell-Weil groups
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- Rob Benedetto (Amherst College), 4:20 – 5:10.
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Title: Elliptic curves over p-adic fields
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