This is the home page of STAGE, the Seminar on Topics in Arithmetic, Geometry, Etc. To get on (or off) the seminar mailing list, contact me (Kiran Kedlaya).

Seminar news

Conference news

I like to collect news about conferences of interest to students in arithmetic geometry. Note that I also maintain an overall wiki list of conferences in number theory.

• Next year's Arizona Winter School will be held March 14-18 in Tucson; the topic is quadratic forms. The speakers will be Manjul Bhargava, John Conway, Noam Elkies, Jonathan Hanke, and Raman Parimala. I have no further information about funding yet.
• There will be a spring school on p-adic methods in arithmetic geometry at Hebrew University, March 29-April 7. Funding is available; the deadline is November 30.
• The Clay Mathematics Institute will be sponsoring a summer school on Galois representations at the University of Hawaii, June 15-July 10. Funding is available; the deadline is February 15.
• The Park City Mathematics Institute program for 2009 will be on arithmetic of L-functions. I have no further information about funding yet.

Schedule

Exceptional meetings (or lacks thereof), or other events of interest, are in italics.

Date	Speaker	Topic
September 2 (Tue)	2-3, room 2-290: everyone	Organizational meeting
September 8	NO MEETING	(KSK away)
September 15	TBA	TBA
September 22	1-2: TBA	TBA
	2-3: David Whitehouse	TBA
September 29	TBA	TBA
October 6	TBA	TBA
October 13	NO MEETING	(Columbus Day holiday)
October 20	TBA	TBA
October 27	TBA	TBA
November 3	TBA	TBA
November 10	NO MEETING	(Veterans Day holiday)
November 17	TBA	TBA
November 24	TBA	TBA
December 1	TBA	TBA
December 8	TBA	TBA
December 15	TBA	TBA

Archives

I have archived the home pages from the spring 2004, fall 2004, spring 2005, fall 2005, spring 2006, fall 2006, spring 2007, fall 2007, and spring 2008 semesters.

Other local seminars

• The MIT number theory seminar is a research seminar in number theory.

• The Baby Algebraic Geometry Seminar (BAGS) is a joint Harvard-MIT graduate seminar in algebraic geometry; it is distinguished from STAGE by being more focused on "classical" algebraic geometry and less on arithmetic. (There is however a sizable overlap in both topics and audience.) It is scheduled in conjunction with the joint Harvard/MIT algebraic geometry seminar, with its location correspondingly rotating between Harvard and MIT.

• The Boston University algebra seminar is in fact a research seminar in number theory. (The easiest way to the BU math department is probably to walk. Allow 25-30 minutes.)

• In prior semesters, BU has also had a student seminar in number theory and algebraic geometry; I expect this will happen again in future.

• The Harvard number theory seminar does not have a separate home page; you can see upcoming talks listed on the math department seminar listing. (Take the red line from Kendall, in which case allow 20 minutes. Or walk up Mass. Ave., in which case allow 35 minutes.)

• At any given moment, there are typically several informal graduate seminars in existence at Harvard, but they're so informal as to ordinarily not have web pages.

Miscellanea

Check out the web page for the McGill seminar on cohomology theories from the 2003-2004 academic year. They have some notes posted which may be of interest.

I'm collecting a list of references for topics that come up in the seminar (see also the McGill page), and a list of potential topics. (The latter is not to be confused with "topics not yet scheduled", which are the ones I am actively looking to include.) This list is now quite old, but possibly still useful.

Some information about the seminar (some of which is now dated) is contained in the introductory email that I sent out to the mailing list on December 23, 2003, and the followup email that I sent on January 6, 2004.

This page is maintained by Kiran Kedlaya; it was shamelessly copied from Jason Starr's page, which in turn was shamelessly copied from Ravi Vakil's page, which in turn was shamelessly copied from Pasha Belorousski's page at the University of Michigan. For more sites with a similar pedigree, see Michael Thaddeus's list or Jim Bryan's list.