Seminar on Abelian Varieties and the Mordell Conjecture

The aim of our seminar is to understand Faltings 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture.

Wednesday 2 – 4 pm, T 03 R 04 D 10

Program: pdf

Literature: link

Organizer: Moritz Kerz (moritz.kerz@uni-due.de)

Talk	Lecturer	Time
0) Overview	Moritz Kerz	13.10.
1) Moduli of abelian varieties	Christian Kappen	20.10. + 27.10.
2) Faltings height and finiteness	Georg Hein	3.11.
3) Faltings height and isogenies	Andre Chatzistamatiou	10.11. + 17.11.
4) Tate conjecture	Nicolas Billerey	24.11. + 1.12.
5) Shafarevich conjecture	Kay Ruelling	12.1.
6) Mordell conjecture	Duy-Tan Nguyen
7) Finitely generated fields	Stefan Kukulies