Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry

Organizers

• Gavin Brown (Loughborough)
• Samir Siksek (Warwick)
  

Information:

This workshop is part of the 2012 British Mathematical Colloquium, held at the University of Kent, 16--19 April, 2012.

Registration:

If you plan to attend the workshop, you need to register for the BMC.

Invited Speakers

• Tom Fisher (Cambridge)
  
• Alexander Kasprzyk (Imperial)
• Rachel Newton (Cambridge)
  
• Damiano Testa (Warwick)

Programme: (all talks will take place in KS17, Keynes College)

Tuesday 17 April 2012

• 13.30--14.30 Alexander Kasprzyk (Imperial)
  Hunting for Fano varieties via extremal Laurent polynomials
• 14.45--15.15 Arsen Elkin (Warwick)
  Computing de Rham comohology of p-covers of the projective line in characteristic p
• 15.30--16.30 Damiano Testa (Warwick)
  The surface of cuboids and Siegel modular threefolds

Wednesday 18 April 2012

• 13.30--14.30 Rachel Newton (Cambridge)
  The Artin-Wedderburn Theorem and local Tate duality
• 14.45--15.15 Shabieh Farwa (Sheffield)
  Exact holomorphic differentials in characteristics 2 and 3
• 15.30--16.30 Tom Fisher (Cambridge)
  Visibility of Tate-Shafarevich groups in abelian threefolds