Etale Homotopy Theory and Diophantine Equations
Event details
| Date | 02.07.2012 › 29.08.2012 |
| Hour | 14:00 › 16:00 |
| Speaker | Yonatan Harpaz and Tomer Schlank, Mondays and Wednesdays only |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
In this mini-course we shall present some applications of étale homotopy theory to the study of Diophantine equations. We show how étale homotopy theory provides a very general and natural way to obstruct solutions to Diophantine equations and how these obstructions give a unified description to the known obstructions to the local-global principle. An exposition to modern homotopy theory will be provided as well and will take up the first half of the mini-course.
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