MIT STAGE (Seminar on Topics in Arithmetic Geometry, Etc.)
Spring 2004: Fridays 11-12, 2-151

This was the home page of STAGE, the Seminar on Topics in Arithmetic Geometry, Etc., during the spring 2004 semester. The current web page is here.

Schedule

Topics we didn't get around to: Dwork's proof of rationality of zeta functions (no speaker yet), some computations in p-adic cohomology (probably me), ordinary Hodge theory and some p-adic Hodge theory. See also the potential topics list.

Date
 Speaker
 Title
Feb 6 Kiran Kedlaya Weil cohomologies and the Weil conjectures
Feb 13 Abhinav Kumar Overview of etale cohomology
Feb 20 Abhinav Kumar Overview of etale cohomology continued: cohomology of curves
Feb 27 Josh Nichols-Barrer Sites and Grothendieck topologies
March 5 Jeng-Daw Yu Cohomology of some complete intersections
March 12 Jay Pottharst Algebraic de Rham cohomology (and hypercohomology)
March 19 Michael Schein Overview of p-adic cohomology
March 24 SPRING BREAK No talk currently scheduled
April 2 Josh Nichols-Barrer Sites continued: there are enough injectives
April 9 Martin Olsson Introduction to log-geometry
April 16 Kiran Kedlaya Monsky-Washnitzer cohomology: de Rham cohomology in characteristic p
April 23 Kiran Kedlaya (moderator) Discussion: primes in arithmetic progressions (arXiv:math.NT/0404188)
April 30   no meeting

Miscellanea

Check out the web page for the ongoing McGill seminar on cohomology theories. 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.)

Some information about the seminar is contained in the introductory email that I sent out to the mailing list on December 23, and the followup email that I sent on January 6.

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.