BSD Plan for 2007-04-20 1. State the BSD formula 2. Sha and the WC group 3. Main theoem ord <= 1 ==> Sha finite. Not known in any case when ord >= 2. 4. Examples. 5. Prepare something about your projects for Monday; we'll discuss each for a few minutes. ------------------------------------------ Next time: 2007-04-23: 1. Talk about projects: a. Robert B -- 2-descent b. Dustin M -- ap lists c. Robert M -- congruence graph d. Koopa K -- what we just did; finiteness of Sha's New project (?): * Heegner points package in SAGE (they are coming up) 2. p-adic Regulator.