Thursday, August 19, 2004

2:00p.m., Room 304


Speaker: Dino Lorenzini, University of Georgia
 
Title of talk: Rational points on curves
 
Abstract: A more down-to-earth version of the topic would be: 
Given a  polynomial f(x,y) with rational coefficients, what can be
 said about  the points (x,y) with rational coordinates x and y such
 that f(x,y)=0.  I will give a short survey of this subject.