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Title: Mordell-Weil problem for cubic surfaces: a combinatorial approach
Speaker: Yuri Manin
Speaker Info: Northwestern University
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Let V be a smooth cubic surface over a number field K. The following question remains unsolved: can one generate all points In V(K) starting with finite number of them and applying the classical method of secants and tangents?

I will report on some recent work on this, including combinatorial approaches and computer experiments.