SMS scnews item created by Bill Unger at Mon 11 Feb 2013 1518
Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 14 Feb 2013
Calendar1: 14 Feb 2013 1505-1600
CalLoc1: Carslaw 535A
Auth: billu@gauguin.maths.usyd.edu.au

Computational Algebra Seminar: Lauder -- Elliptic curves and p-adic L-functions

Speaker: Alan Lauder (Oxford)
Title: Elliptic curves and p-adic L-functions
Time & Place: 3:05-4pm, Thursday 14 February, Carslaw 535

Abstract:
I will discuss a p-adic formula for classical Heegner points on
elliptic curves in terms of special values of certain p-adic
L-functions - this is joint work with Henri Darmon and Victor Rotger.
The formula has a natural generalisation which conjecturally yields other 
new types of global points. It was discovered experimentally using the 
Magma computer algebra package.