Modularity and Galois representations

Mon, 17/05/2010
16:00
Frank Gounelas (University of Oxford) Junior Number Theory Seminar Add to calendar SR1
This talk is the second in a series of an elementary introduction to the ideas unifying elliptic curves, modular forms and Galois representations. I will discuss what it means for an elliptic curve to be modular and what type of representations one associates to such objects.