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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