Event time:
Friday, February 15, 2013 - 8:00am to 9:00am
Location:
431DL
Speaker:
Shaked Koplewitz
Speaker affiliation:
Yale University
Event description:
Class field theory gives a very good description of the abelian extensions of local fields (complete discrete valuation fields with finite residue fields) in terms of the base field. I will describe these classical results and how they extend to metabelian (solvable of degree two) extensions. I will assume no special knowledge in algebra.