Jennifer Park : A heuristic for boundedness of elliptic curves

Posted by Nathan Jones , part of the Number Theory Seminar.

At

May 4, 2016, 1 p.m.

In

SEO 1227

Abstract

I will discuss a heuristic that predicts that the ranks of all but finitely many elliptic curves defined over Q are bounded above by 21. This is joint work with Bjorn Poonen, John Voight, and Melanie Matchett Wood.