Departmental Colloquium

Date: Monday, Jan 22, 2001

Time: 4:15PM

Location: JWB 335

Chandashekhar Khare

Bombay, India)

Title	The absolute Galois group of Q
Abstract	The absolute Galois group of Q is one of the central objects of study in algebraic number theory. To vary a well-known quote, one may say that this group knows everything about number fields and one has only to persuade it to tell us. I will talk of recent attempts of studying this group through its representations.

Number Theory Representation Theory