Seminar| Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Time: Thursday, January 8th, 2026,15:30-16:30
Location: RS408, IMS
Speaker: Gregory Sankaran, University of Bath
Abstract: The moduli space of principally polarised abelian varieties of dimension g is unirational over the complex numbers if and only if g<6. I will explain what happens for small g over the rational numbers, and give some arithmetic consequences. This is joint work with Dan Loughran.