2009 Distinguished Lectures - Shouwu Zhang

All talks will be from 4-5 p.m. in B239 Van Vleck Monday, Nov. 30, 2009 Rational Points on Curves Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009 Gross-Schoen cycles and dualising sheaves Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009 Gross-Schoen cycles and triple product L-series Shouwu Zhang is a professor of Mathematics at Columbia University and L.K. Hua Chair Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He is well-known for generalizations of the deep and beautiful Gross-Zagier formula, sometimes called the Gross-Zagier-Zhang formula and for his proof of the Bogomolov conjecture in arithmetic geometry.