Seminar series
Date
Mon, 06 Feb 2012
Time
16:00 -
17:00
Location
SR1
Speaker
Jan Vonk
The infamous inverse Galois problem asks whether or not every finite group can be realised as a Galois group over Q. We will see some techniques that have been developed to attack it, and will soon end up in the realms of class field theory, étale fundamental groups and modular representations. We will give some concrete examples and outline the so called 'rigidity method'.