Arithmetic of del Pezzo and K3 surfaces
Event details
| Date | 10.07.2012 › 21.08.2012 |
| Hour | 09:30 › 12:00 |
| Speaker | Anthony Várilly-Alvarado, Tuesdays only |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
In this course we will survey classical and recent advances in the explicit study of failures of local-to-global principles on del Pezzo and K3 surfaces. Topics include: a review of geometric facts about these surfaces; (potential) density of rational points and unirationality results; explicit techniques for the computation of Picard and Brauer groups of these surfaces; Brauer-Manin obstructions. Time permitting, we will discuss these topics for Enriques surfaces (including étale-Brauer obstructions), by focusing on their K3 double covers.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- Hélène Esnault (U. Duisburg-Essen), Andrew Kresch (U. Zürich), Bjorn Poonen (MIT), Alexei Skorobogatov (Imperial College London)
Contact
- Rana Gherzeddine http://bernoulli.epfl.ch/index.php