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“