MIT STAGE (Seminar on Topics in Arithmetic Geometry, Etc.)
Fall 2004: Fridays 10-11 AM, Room 2-136

This is the home page of STAGE, the Seminar on Topics in Arithmetic Geometry, Etc. The seminar meets Fridays 10-11 in room 2-136 (at MIT). To get on (or off of) the seminar mailing list, contact me (Kiran Kedlaya).

News

I have amended the theme for this semester to "Cohomology, Zeta Functions, and Families", basically to make it a continuation of last semester. The organizational meeting will be Friday, September 10, at 11 AM in the math department common room (2-290); if you can't make it, send email with your input about meeting times, specific topics, and speakers.

Anyone reading this web page might be interested to know that Johan de Jong and Damiano Testa will be reviving BAGS (Baby Algebraic Geometry Seminar, i.e., a general algebraic geometry seminar by and for graduate students) this semester. Email Damiano (damiano at math dot mit dot edu) to get on the mailing list.

Anyone reading this web page might be interested to know that I am teaching a topics course next year, 18.727, on rigid analytic geometry; it will have a mailing list separate from this seminar. See the course web page for more information.

Schedule

Beware that since we operate informally, the precise dates when people will speak are subject to variation, sometimes on short notice. The most reliable way to keep track of these variations is to get on the mailing list.

Note that I expect December 3 to be the last meeting of the semester; classes end at MIT on December 9, and I will be traveling immediately after I finish teaching.

Date
Speaker
Topic
September 24 Kiran Kedlaya Cohomology in families: the Gauss-Manin connection
October 1 NO MEETING (Kiran away)
October 8 Kiran Kedlaya Monsky-Washnitzer cohomology of hyperelliptic curves
October 15 William Stein Computing canonical p-adic cyclotomic heights using Monsky-Washnitzer cohomology and the Mazur-Tate p-adic sigma function [notes, link to William's talks page]
October 22 Jonathan Pottharst Dwork's proof of rationality, and Katz's interpretation [notes in ps, pdf, dvi]
October 29 Jonathan Pottharst Dwork's proof of rationality (continuation)
November 5 Jesse Kass Etale cohomology
November 12 Kiran Kedlaya (moderator) Hot off the presses: Moduli of finite flat group schemes and modularity (after Kisin)
November 19 NO MEETING  
November 26 NO MEETING (Thanksgiving holiday)
December 3 Sug Woo Shin Degeneration of the Hodge-de Rham spectral sequence
Topics not yet scheduled that I'd like to see covered:

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 definitely plan to include.) Beware that these have not yet been updated from last semester, but they're 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.