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Title: Climbing up a tower to get a glimpse of BSD
Speaker: Vlad Serban
Speaker Info: Northwestern
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Proving the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture is pretty much pie in the sky right now. But I will explain how studying the growth of cohomology groups in cyclotomic towers leads to some neat results related to the famous conjecture. #Noprerequisites #L-functions #Iwasawa theory #elliptic curves #BSD #freefood