July 10-16, 2005

Rational Points on Curves -
Explicit Methods

Workshop at International University Bremen



Tentative Programme



All talks will take place in East Hall 4.

Monday, July 11 09:30-10:30 Michael Stoll Opening and Introduction
  11:15-12:15 William Stein Verification of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture for Specific Elliptic Curves
  14:30-15:00   Organizational Meeting (Michael Stoll)
  15:00-16:15 Michael Stoll Finding Points
  16:30-17:30 Denis Simon Rational Points on Conics and Generalisations
Tuesday, July 12 09:30-10:30 Tom Fisher Explicit Descent on Elliptic Curves, I
  11:15-12:15 Cathy O'Neil Explicit Descent on Elliptic Curves, II
  14:30-15:00 Cathy O'Neil Sampling Spaces
  15:15-16:00 Ed Schaefer The Cassels-Tate Pairing
  16:15-17:15 Mark Watkins Two and Four Descents
  17:30-18:00 Tom Fisher Minimization
Wednesday, July 13 09:30-10:30 Ed Schaefer Computing Selmer Groups of Jacobians
  11:15-12:15 Nils Bruin 2-coverings of Hyperelliptic Curves
  14:30-15:15 Victor Rotger Abelian Surfaces of GL2-type and Points on Shimura Curves
  15:30-16:15 Skorobogatov Shimura Curves and the Hasse Principle
  16:45-17:15 Kamal Khuri-Makdisi Implementing Addition on J(k)
  17:30-18:00 Nils Bruin Small Genus 2 Curves
Thursday, July 14 09:30-10:30 J.-L. Colliot-Thélène Brauer-Manin Obstruction and the Fibration Method
  11:15-12:15 Alexei Skorobogatov Torsors, Descent and the Brauer Group
  14:30-15:30 Olivier Wittenberg Hasse Principle for Del Pezzo Surfaces of Degree 4
  15:45-16:15 Adam Logan Computing Azumaya Algebras that Represent the Brauer Group of Del Pezzo Surfaces of Degree 4
  16:30-17:00 Martin Bright Efficient Computation of the Brauer-Manin Obstruction
  17:15-18:15 Peter Swinnerton-Dyer A New Result on the Manin Conjecture on Points of Bounded Height
Friday, July 15 09:30-10:30 Fedor Bogomolov Special Correspondences for Curves Over Small Fields (Q-bar, Fp-bar)
  11:15-12:15 Samir Siksek Functions, Reciprocity and the Obstruction to Divisors on Curves
  14:30-   Report on the Workshop -- Bull Session

Organizer

Michael Stoll (IU Bremen)

Supported by

International University Bremen, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft


Last modified: 2005-07-11
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