Spaces, Functions, Numbers Seminar (SFNS): Phillips -- Equidistribution of rational points on weighted projective stacks

Tristan Phillips (Dartmouth College) will be speaking in the Spaces, Functions and
Numbers Seminar.  It will be a Zoom talk, and all are welcome to join! 

When: Tuesday March 11th, 10:00 - 11:30 am AEST 

Where: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83704358909 

Title: Equidistribution of rational points on weighted projective stacks 

Abstract: Studying rational points on varieties is a central topic in number theory.
When there are infinitely many rational points one can ask how are they distributed.
Are they all clumping together? Do most of them tend to lie on a special sub-variety? Or
do they distribute equally over the entire variety? 

In this talk I will focus on a particularly nice set of spaces, weighted projective
stacks.  We will see that rational points on these spaces satisfy certain strong
equidistribution properties.  Finally I will survey some applications of
equidistribution to the arithmetic of elliptic curves.