Speaker: 

Professor Karl Rubin

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Friday, February 29, 2008 - 4:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 120

The rank of an elliptic curve comes in three flavors: arithmetic (which measures the set of rational points), analytic, and cohomological. Conjecturally all three coincide, but in many cases one knows more about one than another. In this talk we will introduce elliptic curves and their ranks, and discuss various conjectures and theorems relating these ranks.