The first lecture is tomorrow, ¡­

The first lecture is tomorrow, tuesday 21.08 at 12:15-13:00, room B62 in NHA. I will provide some practical information and give a short overview of the course and elliptic curves in general.

I will probably also start talking about (a few things from) Ch. 1 in Silverman. This will be continued in the lecture on thursday. The material in Ch. 1 is more background stuff from Algebraic Geometry, but with a twist suitable for elliptic curves. Therefore, we shall discuss this somewhat briefly, both to set notation, and as a preparation for talking about elliptic curves.