Department Colloquium

Date & Time: Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 16:00-17:00.
Venue: Ramanujan Hall

Speaker:Jasbir S. Chahal,
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

Title: Two applications of the arithmetic of elliptic curves

Abstract: Using the arithmetic of elliptic curves, we will show that the converse to a famous conjecture on congruent numbers is as false as it could be, and as a second application, give an algorithm to generate all rational albime triangles.