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Algebra Seminar

Monday, February 17, 2020 - 3:15pm

Xiyuan Wang

Johns Hopkins

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

We proved the Tate conjecture for certain concrete family of elliptic surfaces over Q. This is joint work with Lian Duan. I will begin with an introduction to the Tate conjecture and the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture. Then I will try to explain the main idea of our proof and do some basic computations.