MIT STAGE: Seminar on Topics in Arithmetic, Geometry, Etc.

MIT STAGE (Seminar on Topics in Arithmetic, Geometry, Etc.)
Spring 2005: Mondays 3-4 PM, Room 2-136

This was the home page of STAGE for the spring 2005 semester. The current home page is here.

News

The "theme" for this semester is "Connections with rigid geometry". In particular, I am organizing a working group to read Berkovich's paper Etale cohomology for non-archimedean analytic spaces (available online at NUMDAM). in detail. I will be integrating a rough schedule of that group into this page (including its meeting times, which will probably not be in the usual Monday time slot); however, it will have a separate mailing list, so if you are interested in attending, you should ask me to put you on it.

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.

Date	Speaker	Topic
February 7	any and all	Organizational meeting
February 14	NO MEETING	(Kiran away)
February 21	NO MEETING	(Presidents Day holiday)
February 28	Abhinav Kumar	Lefschetz pencils
March 7	Jesse Kass	Raynaud's proof of Abhyankar's conjecture
March 14	NO MEETING	(Arizona Winter School)
March 21	NO MEETING	(MIT spring break)
March 22 (Tuesday 4 PM, Harvard)	Kiran Kedlaya	Overview of Berkovich's paper
March 28	NO MEETING	(Harvard spring break)
March 29 (Tuesday 4 PM, MIT)	Rebecca Lehman	Berkovich, Chapter I
April 5 (Tuesday 4 PM, Harvard)	Abhinav Kumar	Berkovich, Chapter I
April 12 (Tuesday 4 PM, MIT)	Michael Schein	Berkovich, Chapter II
April 19 (Tuesday 4 PM, Harvard)	Ruochuan Liu	Berkovich, Chapter II
April 26 (Tuesday 4 PM, MIT)	Jay Pottharst	Berkovich, Chapter III
May 3 (Tuesday 4 PM, Harvard)	Josh Nichols-Barrer	Berkovich, Chapter III
May 9	Kiran Kedlaya, David Savitt, et al.	Khare's work on Serre's conjecture

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.) 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.