Quadratic points on hyperelliptic curves

Series
Algebra Seminar
Time
Friday, November 21, 2014 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Jennifer Park – McGill University
Organizer
Joseph Rabinoff
Using the ideas of Poonen and Stoll, we develop a modified version of Chabauty's method, which shows that a positive proportion of hyperelliptic curves have as few quadratic points as possible.