Point countingMPIM

by Madhavan Venkatesh (MPI for Software Systems, Saarbrücken)

Tuesday Mar 3, 2026, 2:30 PM → 3:30 PM Europe/Berlin

MPIM, Vivatsgasse, 7 - Lecture Hall (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics)

Number theory lunch seminar

We survey efficient methods to count the number of points of varieties over finite fields, and discuss our recent polynomial-time algorithm for surfaces. This is based on joint work with Nitin Saxena.