Point-counting and diophantine applications

Seminar: 
Hahn Lecture Series
Event time: 
Monday, October 29, 2018 - 4:15pm
Location: 
DL 220
10 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520
Speaker: 
Jonathan Pila
Speaker affiliation: 
Oxford
Event description: 

This introductory lecture will describe results about counting rational points on certain

non-algebraic sets and sketch how they can be used to attack certain problems in

diophantine geometry and functional transcendence.