This semester we will be having a small seminar on Faltings' proof of the Mordell conjecture.
Useful resources:
The webpage for a seminar on the same topic held in Harvard in 2012 (this page also contains
links to several other useful resources).
The webpage for a seminar on the same topic held in Stanford in 2010-11.
Schedule:
Tuesday, 20th October, HG 00.065 :
Netan - Introduction to the conjectures of Mordell, Shafarevich and Tate.
Friday, 23rd October, HG 01.028 9:00-11:00:
Netan - Deducing Shafarevich and Mordell from finiteness of isogeny classes.
Ben - Heights and why they solve all our problems.
Tuesday, 3rd November, HG 03.082 9:00-11:00:
Ben - Heights and why they solve all out problems, continued.
Tuesday, 17th November, HG 03.054 9:30-11:00:
Netan - Neron Models
Tuesday, 24th November, HG 00.065 9:30-11:00
Johan - Gabber's Lemma
Tuesday, 1st December, HG 00.663 9:30-11:00
Milan - Logarithmic singularities of the Faltings height
Tuesday, 8th December, HG 03.054 9:30-11:00
Netan - Finiteness of abelian varieties of bounded height
Tuesday, 15th December, HG 00.065 10:00-11:30
Ben - Introduction to finite flat group schemes
Tuesday, 19th January HG 01.057 10:00-11:30
Johan - p-divisible groups
Wednesday, 2nd February HG01.058 15:30-17:00
Milan - Group schemes of type (p,...,p) I
Thursday, 11th February HG02.802 10:00-11:30
Netan - Group schemes of type (p,...,p) II