The Mordell conjecture 100 years later

July 8-12, 2024

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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Schedule

(All talks will take place in 10-250. Click speaker names for their websites. Click titles for abstracts.)
Monday
9:30 Gerd Faltings
Mordell past and present (slides)
10:30Coffee/tea
11:15
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2:00 Ziyang Gao
Sparsity of rational points on curves (slides)
3:10
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4:00Coffee/tea
4:45 Lars Kühne
The Uniform Mordell–Lang Conjecture
Tuesday
9:30 Xinyi Yuan
On the uniform Mordell conjecture
10:30Coffee/tea
11:15
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2:00 Umberto Zannier
The affine case of Mordell conjecture: a survey on Siegel's theorem on integral points
3:10
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4:00Coffee/tea
4:45 Bianca Viray
Algebraic points on curves (slides)
Wednesday
9:00 Ehud Hrushovski
Towards a model theory of heights (slides)
10:00Coffee/tea
10:30 José Felipe Voloch
Mordell's conjecture in positive characteristic and descent obstructions (slides)
11:40 Levent Alpöge
Conditional algorithmic Mordell
Thursday
9:30 Evelina Viada
On the torsion and rational points of some curves (slides)
10:30Coffee/tea
11:15 Damaris Schindler
Density of rational points near manifolds (slides)
2:15 Nicole Looper
Rationality in arithmetic dynamics (slides)
3:15Coffee/tea
4:00Problem session
Friday
9:30 Marta Pieropan
Campana points: conjectures and results
10:30Coffee/tea
11:00 Hector Pasten
Xeric varieties and their relation with geometry and p-adic analysis (slides)
2:00 Alexander Betts
Chabauty–Kim theory: retrospectives and prospects (slides)
3:00Coffee/tea
3:30 Michael Stoll
Formalizing Mordell? (slides)

Conference phoot

Participants may also be interested in the ANTS XVI conference at MIT the following week. It has a separate registration.

Organizers: Jennifer Balakrishnan, Philipp Habegger, Bjorn Poonen, Andrew Sutherland, Wei Zhang

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