Speaker: 

Lian Duan

Institution: 

Univ. of Mass, Amherst

Time: 

Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Host: 

Location: 

RH 306

As a classical example of K3 surfaces, the Dwork surface family is of interest in algebraic geometry and number theory. A lot of work has been done to understand the Hasse-Weil zeta functions of these surfaces. Recent works show that people can totally determine the algebraic part of the zeta function for a general Dwork surface. In this talk, we discuss how to use geometric method to find the explicit factorization of the algebraic part.