Seminar series
Date
Thu, 29 Oct 2026
16:00
16:00
Location
L4
Speaker
Tim Santens
Organisation
University of Cambridge (DPMMS)
Manin and his collaborators initiated a program in 1989 with the goal of understanding the distribution of rational points of bounded height on Fano varieties, using methods from algebraic geometry and analytic number theory. Since then, there has been substantial progress on this program, including the formulation of a precise conjecture. I will discuss the achievements of this program since then, with a focus on surfaces, including some of my own work on quintic del Pezzo surfaces.