Instructor: Ching-Li Chai

Office: DRL 4N36, Ext. 8-8469.
Office Hours: MW 1:00

General Information

• First meeting: Wednesday 8/30, 1:45 pm, DRL 2C2.
  
  
• Lectures: MW 1:45--3:14 pm, DRL 2C2.
  
  
• Topics: In fall 2023, the goal is to explain Faltings' (first) proof of Mordell's conjecture and the related finiteness theorems of abelian varieties.
  
  
• Background knowledge: graduate-level algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory.
  
  
• References:
  • G. Faltings, "Endlichkeitssatze fur abelsche Varietaten uber Zahlkorpern", Inv. Math. 1983, English translation in "Arithmetic Geometry", ed. G. Cornell and J. Silverman, 1986
  • G. Faltings and G. Wustholz et al., Rational Points, 1984.
  • Seminaire sur les Pinceaux Arithmetiques:La Conjecture de Mordell, Ast. 127, 1985.
  • Mumford, Abelian Varieties

Academic calendar fall 2021

• First day of classes, 8/29
• First meeting, Wednesday 8/30
• Drop period ends, 10/09
• Grade type change deadline, 10/29
• Fall break, 10/12--10/15
• Last day to withdraw, 11/08
• Thanksgiving break, 11/23--11/26
• Last day of classes, 12/11