Meanwhile…

Recent abstracts of interest:

Kuwait Foundation Lectures —

Jan. 29, 2008: J. P. Wintenberger, “On the Proof of Serre’s Conjecture“

Oct. 28, 2008: Chandrashekhar Khare, “Modular Forms and Galois Representations“

Background:

The Last Theorem, a novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl published Aug. 5, 2008

“Going Beyond Fermat’s Last Theorem,” a news article in The Hindu published April 25, 2005

Wikipedia: Serre Conjecture (Number Theory)

Henri Darmon, “Serre’s Conjectures“