A panorama of elliptic curves
- Series
- Research Horizons Seminar
- Time
- Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 12:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 255
- Speaker
- Douglas Ulmer – Professor and Chair, School of Mathematics
Please Note: Hosted by: Huy Huynh and Yao Li
Elliptic curves are solution sets of cubic polynomials in two
variables. I'll explain a bit of where they came from (computing the
arc length of an ellipse, hence the name), their remarkable group
structure, and some of the many roles they play in mathematics and
applications, from mechanics to algebraic geometry to cryptography.