Abstract: Morton and Silverman's uniform boundedness conjecture on preperiodic points for rational maps -- originally stated over number fields -- has a natural analogue over function fields. I will state the function field version and discuss the proof for quadratic polynomial maps, which involves bounding the gonalities of (the geometric components of) the associated dynamical modular curves. This is joint work with Bjorn Poonen.
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