Speaker: Brendan Creutz (Sydney) Title: Arithmetic of superelliptic curves Time & Place: 3:05pm-4pm, Thursday 27 October, Carslaw 535 Abstract: I will discuss some basics of how one might go about computing the set of rational solutions to an equation of the form y^q = f(x), where f(x) is a polynomial with rational coefficients and q is a prime number.