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Jennifer Balakrishnan (Boston University)

Thursday, January 15, 2026 10:15to11:15
Burnside Hall Room 1104, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, CA

Title:  Quadratic Chabauty for modular curves 

Abstract: By Faltings' theorem, the set of rational points on a curve of genus 2 or more is finite. We give a survey of the quadratic Chabauty method, which is used to determine a finite superset of the set of rational points for certain curves of genus 2 or more. In particular, we discuss what aspects of quadratic Chabauty can be made practical for certain modular curves and highlight several examples, including the non-split Cartan modular curve of level 27. This is based on joint work with Alexander Betts, Netan Dogra, Daniel Hast, Aashraya Jha, Steffen Mueller, Jan Tuitman, and Jan Vonk.

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