Meeting Time: Mondays and Wednesdays 12:00noon to
1:50pm in MS 6221
Office hours: before class meetings, from 11:00am and after class meeting
from 2:00pm to 3:00pm (all Mondays)
in my office: MS6308.
Texts: Lecture notes will be posted:
The notes of lectures [pdf]
(some errors corrected on 12/1).
Though the treatment in my course
will be far more elementary, as a reference book,
we list my book
"Geometric Modular Forms and Elliptic Curves" WSPC, 2000
Topics: We assume Riemann-Roch theorem and Bezout theorem for general plane curves (though we state the theorem and explain its meaning in the course). Then, starting with basics of elliptic curves, I hope to touch the following topics in this course:
Prerequisite:
Good understanding of the material covered by the graduate course 210 (new) series
(as listed in the outline of the algebra qualifying exam
[qual outline]),
some understanding
of algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory will help.
Homework.
I would assign exercises in the lecture notes as homework,
and possibly bring-back exam would be posted here (at the end of the course).
The course grade is assigned by homework and exam performance.