Grothendieck's anabelian conjectures

Series
Research Horizons Seminar
Time
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 12:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Dr. Kirsten Wickelgren – Georgia Tech Math Department
Organizer
Alexander Hoyer
We will discuss methods for solving polynomial equations with integer solutions using the loops on the space of all complex solutions to the same equations. We will then state generalizations of this method due to A. Grothendieck.