Seminar series
Date
Thu, 28 Feb 2019
Time
16:00 -
17:00
Location
L6
Speaker
Beth Romano
Organisation
University of Cambridge
I will talk about recent work with Jack Thorne in which we find the average size of the Selmer group for a family of genus-2 curves by analyzing a graded Lie algebra of type E_8. I will focus on the role representation theory plays in our proofs.