Organizing a Reading Seminar
By Asher Auel
In the Fall semester of 2006, a small group of graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania embarked on the time-honored tradition of organizing a reading seminar. Independent of any course or professor, we decided to read through Cornell and Silverman’s ”Arithmetic Geometry” to understand the proof of Faltings’ theorem (the Mordell conjecture). While it was great fun for the semester, we learned some lessons that we’d like to pass on to those of you who wish to start up a reading seminar on your own. Continue reading ‘Organizing a Reading Seminar’ »
