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The Simons Collaboration on Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory, and Computation met remotely on January 19 to provide research highlights from the past year. Director Brendan Hassett provided a collaboration overview, while Jennifer Balakrishnan gave a talk on Rational Points on Modular Curves and Quadratic Chabauty and John Voight gave a talk on The L-functions and Modular Forms DataBase (LMFDB). The meeting was complimented by a Simons Foundation Lecture given by Bjorn Poonen on Tetrahedra: From Aristotle’s Mistake to Unsolved Problems.
You can view talk videos and slides here.