Seminar on Topics in Arithmetic, Geometry, Etc.

STAGE is a seminar in algebraic geometry and number theory, featuring speakers talking about work that is not their own. Talks will be at a level suitable for graduate students. Everyone is welcome.
Meetings are held on Fridays, 3-4:30pm in MIT room E25-117.
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Spring 2015 topic: Abelian varieties.

References: See also the notes from Schoof's minicourse on finite group schemes, which ends with a proof of the Fontaine-Abrashkin theorem.

February 6: Organizational meeting (3-4pm at most)
February 13: Isabel Vogt: Serre and Tate, Good reduction of abelian varieties, Sections 1-3
February 20: Padmavathi Srinivasan: Serre and Tate, Good reduction of abelian varieties, Sections 4-7
February 27: Nicholas Triantafillou: Tate, Finite flat group schemes
March 6: Chi-Yun Hsu: Tate, Finite flat group schemes (Continued)
March 13: NO MEETING (travel to Arizona Winter School)
March 20: NO MEETING (AGNES)
March 27: NO MEETING (Spring Break)
April 3: Renee Bell: Tate, Finite flat group schemes (Continued)
April 10: Koji Shimizu: Fontaine, Il n'y a pas de variété abélienne sur Z
April 17: Eric Larson : Fontaine, Il n'y a pas de variété abélienne sur Z (Continued)
April 24: David Corwin : Fontaine, Il n'y a pas de variété abélienne sur Z (Continued)
May 1: Lynnelle Ye : Tate, p-divisible groups, E17-133, 2:30 P.M.
May 6: Padmavathi Srinivasan : The Chabauty-Coleman method, 66-156, 9:30 A.M.
May 8: Isabel Vogt : Katz, Serre-Tate local moduli
May 15: SPECIAL LECTURE (by Michael Stoll): The Chabauty-Coleman method and uniform boundedness of rational points on curves of low Mordell-Weil Rank, E17-129, 11:00 A.M.

Past semesters: Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014. For semesters up to and including Spring 2009, see the old STAGE webpage.

Organizers: Jessica Fintzen, Bjorn Poonen, and Padmavathi Srinivasan