Date & Time: Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 15:30-17:00.
Venue: Room 216
Title: A Brief Introduction to Class Field Theory - I
Speaker: Ravi Raghunathan, IIT Bombay
Abstract: I will try to give a brief introductory talk introducing Class Field Theory accessible to first (and later) year graduate students. The only prerequisites will be a first course in Galois theory (M.Sc. Algebra I). A knowledge of the definition of p-adic numbers will be useful but not essential.
If there is sufficient interest, I may continue with more lectures on related topics.