Seminar series
Date
Mon, 15 Jan 2024
16:00
16:00
Location
L2
Speaker
Håvard Damm-Johnsen
Organisation
University of Oxford
Modular curves play a key role in the Langlands programme, being the simplest example of so-called Shimura varieties. Their less famous cousins, Shimura curves, are also very interesting, and very concrete.
In this talk I will give a gentle introduction to the arithmetic of Shimura curves, with lots of explicit examples. Time permitting, I will say something about recent work about intersection numbers of geodesics on Shimura curves.