Algebra Seminar by Dr Rachel Newton
On Friday the 9th of February 2018, Rachel Newton (University of Reading) will be visiting Lincoln and giving a seminar at 2.30pm in INB 3305. All are welcome to attend. Her talk will be on “Counting failures of a local-glocal principle” and her talk abstract is as follows: “The search for rational solutions to polynomial equations is ongoing for more than 4000 years. Modern approaches try to piece together ‘local’ information to decide whether a polynomial equation has a ‘global’ (i.e. rational) solution. I will describe this approach and its limitations, with the aim of quantifying how often the local-global method fails within families of polynomial equations arising from the norm map between fields, as seen in Galois theory. This is joint work with Tim Browning.”
Charlotte Scott Centre for Algebra 
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