Lunch Seminar On Faltings' Theorem 

List of Topic/Referencess: A list of topics and references for this seminar may be found on webpage for the corresponding learning seminar at Stanford. To be a bit more precise, some topics that we will need to cover include: curves and their Jacobians, basic theory of abelian varieties, moduli of abelian varieties, Neron models, finite flat group schemes, p-divisible groups. Please contact me if there is a particular topic that you wish to speak about.