This is a learning seminar at Brown University to study galois representations attached to elliptic curves. We meet 3-3:50pm in Kassar 205. We will read the two papers: Serre - Propriétés galoisiennes des points d'ordre fini des courbes elliptiques Mazur - Rational Isogenies of Prime Degree
Here is a tentative outline:
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 2/5 | Introductory Lecture | Isabel |
| 2/12 | Serre S1 - Tame Inertia | Steven |
| 2/26 | Serre S2 - Subgroups of GL2(Fp) | Daksh |
| 3/4 | AWS - No Seminar | |
| 3/11 | Serre S3 - Systems of abelian representations modulo l | Isabel |
| 3/18 | Serre S4 and some of S5 - Elliptic curves (the proof) | Kaiwen |
| 4/1 | Mazur Intro | Adam |
| 4/8 | Mazur S2 up through Prop 3.1 and proof | Eric |
| 4/15 | Mazur S4 and any parts of S1 needed | Sachi |
| 4/22 | Mazur S5 | |
| 4/29 | Mazur S6 and S7 | Steven |