Speaker : Professor Frans Oort (University of Utrecht)
Title : Arithmetic and Geometry: Three conjectures about dense sets of points(I)
Time : 2012-12-10 (Mon) 13:30 - 14:10
Place : Room 202, Astro-Math. Building
Abstract: Three conjectures will be studied: Manin-Mumford, Andre-Oort and the Hecke Orbit conjecture.We will show that these statements (in arithmetic algebraic geometry) are very similar: all three study a set of points in an algebraic variety and we ask what the closure is of this set. In the first part of my talk I will discuss the basic concepts used: abelian varieties and moduli spaces. I will give examples and some easy proofs. Some of the aspects will be illustrated with the theory of elliptic curves. If you want to obtain a general impression about these things, the first half of the talk will provide this. In the second part I will discuss some more technical details, and an application. The proof of the Hecke Orbit conjecture is joint work with Ching-Li Chai, using a result by Chia-Fu Yu.