Rational Points and Galois Representations
An online workshop hosted by the University of Pittsburgh
May 10-12, 2021
This three-day workshop is meant to bring together mathematicians with interest in rational points on algebraic curves, Galois representations, and related topics. Due to Covid-19, it will be occurring online via Zoom.
Registration
Please fill out the Zoom meeting registration form for the workshop. Everyone is welcome, so please feel free to distribute this link. There is no cost to register.
The Program
We are delighted to feature a colloquium presentation by Prof. Kirsten Wickelgren, seven research talks, one coding and database demo session, and one problem discussion session moderated by Prof. David Zureick-Brown. There will also be simultaneous chat sessions hosted on the Discord platform, with chat access information distributed to registered participants.
Speakers
- Alex Betts, Harvard University
- Francesca Bianchi, University of Groningen
- Abbey Bourdon, Wake Forest University
- Jackson Morrow, Université de Montréal
- Richard Hain, Duke University
- Benjamin Matschke, Boston University
- J. Steffen Müller, University of Groningen
- Will Sawin, Columbia University
- Padmavathi Srinivasan, University of Georgia
- Isabel Vogt, University of Washington
- Kirsten Wickelgren, Duke University
Advance contributors to the Problem Discussion Session (Moderator: David Zureick-Brown, Emory University)
- Jennifer S. Balakrishnan, Boston University
- Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin
- Minhyong Kim, University of Warwick
- Barry Mazur, Harvard University
Welcoming Environment
Please join your fellow participants in working to create a welcoming environment for everyone at this workshop, in the spirit of the AMS Policy on a Welcoming Environment. As part of this effort, the organizers ask that all participants display the full name that they use in their professional work in the Zoom and Discord sessions. Questions or concerns about the workshop environment can be directed to any of the organizers.
Schedule
Schedule of sessions and speakers/contributors.
The ten sessions of the workshop are distributed 3-4-3 over Mon-Tues-Wed, May 10-12. The daily schedule aims at daylight hours ranging from the North American Pacific coast to Central Europe.
- Monday's and Wednesday's activities will begin at 10AM EDT/Pittsburgh and end at 2PM EDT/Pittsburgh.
- Tuesday's activities will being at 9:30AM EDT/Pittsburgh and end at 2:30PM EDT/Pittsburgh.
- The final session on Monday is a colloquium presentation, aimed at a broad audience. It begins at 1:00PM EDT.
- The final session on Wednesday is a problem discussion session. It begins at 1:00PM EDT.
Abstracts
Titles and abstracts of the various presentations will be posted here around one week before the workshop begins.
Support
We gratefully acknowledge support of this workshop by Pitt Momentum Funds and the Pitt Department of Mathematics.
Organizers
This workshop is organized by
- Netan Dogra (King's College London)
- Carl Wang-Erickson (University of Pittsburgh)
- Jennifer S. Balakrishnan (Boston University)
- Brian Lawrence (University of Chicago).
