University of Cyprus Mathematics and Statistics Seminar

Fall 2012 Lectures

Regular meeting time: Wednesdays 16:00-17:00 (Coffee and tea served at 15:30)
Place: ΘEE01 039

Date	Speaker	Title
September 05	Evan Mitsoulis National Technical UNiversity of Athens	Modeling and Simulation of Viscoelasticity with Integral Constitutive Equations.
September 12	Christoforos Neofytidis University of Munich	TBA
September 19	Christian Liedtke University of Bonn	Rational Curves on K3 Surfaces. A way to understand algebraic varieties (zero sets of polynomial equations) is to study algebraic maps from the line to them, i.e., the qualitative and quantitative behavior of rational curves. The case of algebraic curves is well-understood, we have a conjectural picture for algebraic surfaces, and some ideas about higher dimensions. In this picture, Bogomolov conjectured that K3 surfaces (for example, quartic hypersurfaces in 3-space) contain infinitely many rational curves. We will explain how to establish this conjecture in the generic case (Picard rank 1) using methods from complex geometry, number theory and arithmetic geometry. This is joint work with Jun Li.

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