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Galois Representations
Colloquium| Speaker: | Ravi Ramakrishna, Cornell University |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Mon, Apr 14 2003, 4:10PM |
Description
The Galois group of the algebraic closure of the rational
numbers over the rational numbers is an enormously complicated
object. It turns out that many intersesting questions in
number theory can be approached via the study of representations
of this group. I'll explain the constructions of these
representations and their implications to some classical
arithmetic questions.
There will be a dinner after the talk.