Algebraic Geometry Working Seminar
Nic Banks, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Inverse Galois Theory of Elliptic Curves"
The Inverse Galois Problem asks which finite groups appear as Galois groups of extensions of the rational numbers. The problem was first systematically investigated in 1892 by Hilbert, but the essential ideas were in the mathematical community since Galois enunciated his groundbreaking theory in the 1830s.