Drew Shulman : Complex elliptic curves

Posted by , part of the Graduate Number Theory Seminar.

At

Feb. 2, 2009, 3 p.m.

In

SEO 427

Abstract

The basic definitions of modular forms will continue to be introduced. We shall see that a complex torus (a Riemann surface) is related to modular forms through the fact that the equivalence classes of points in H (the upper half plane) under the action of the modular group can be described through the isomorphism classes of complex elliptic curves.