Title:     Charting the Land of Elliptic Curves
Speaker:   William Stein (Harvard University)
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 20, 2-3pm, SC 507

Abstract: I will discuss some reasons why elliptic curves over the
rational numbers are so interesting, then discuss Swinnerton-Dyer's
early tables of elliptic curves from Antwerp IV and Cremona's
systematic extension of those tables.  In a different direction, I'll
talk about Brumer and McGuinness's table of curves of prime conductor,
and about a recent push by the author and Mark Watkins to extend that
table to composite conductor.  Finally, I'll talk about extending
Swinnerton-Dyer's tables to abelian varieties (higher dimensional
analogues of elliptic curves).