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4:00pm [4:00pm] Math Colloquium
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Speaker: Prof. Dinakar Ramakrishnan Title: Rational Points Abstract: Since time immemorial, people have been trying to understand the rational number solutions of systems of homogeneous polynomial equations with integer coefficients (called a Diophantine system). It is more convenient to think of them as rational points on associated projective varieties X, which we wll take to be smooth. This talk will introduce the various questions of this topic, and briefly review the reasonably well understood one-dimensional situation. But then the focus will be on dimension 2, and some progress for those covered by the unit ball will be discussed. The talk will end with a program (joint with Mladen Dimitrov) to establish an analogue of a result of Mazur.
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