Eun Hye Lee : The Selmer and Tate-Shafarevich Groups

Posted by Dylon Chow , part of the Graduate Number Theory Seminar.

At

March 4, 2015, 3 p.m.

In

SEO 512

Abstract

I will talk about the definition of the Selmer groups and the Tate-Shafarevich groups: motivations and geometric interpretations. The text I am using is “Diophantine Geometry: An Introduction” by Marc Hindry and Joseph H. Silverman, pages 279-283.