Seminar

Spring 2012 - Algebraic geometry in positive characteristic (with Prof. Ogus)

Tuesday 2-3:30pm, 939 Evans Hall

Syllabus (PDF)

Talks:

  1. 1/31 - Preliminaries on the Frobenius morphism (Doosung Park)
  2. 2/7 - Cartier isomorphism (Andrew Niles)
  3. 2/14 - Frobenius descent and p-curvature (Yuhao Huang)
  4. 2/21 - Lifting to characteristic zero (Peter Mannisto)
  5. 2/28 - Theorem of Deligne-Illusie (Piotr Achinger)
  6. 3/6 - Counterexamples in characteristic p (George Melvin)
  7. 3/13 - Mori's bend and break (Piotr Achinger)
  8. 3/20 - (PD-)Differential operators (James McIvor)
  9. 4/3 - Grothendieck-Katz p-curvature conjecture (Katrina Honigs)
  10. 4/10 - Non-abelian Hodge theory in characteristic p (Yuhao Huang)
  11. 4/17 - The algebraic fundamental group (Jason Ferguson)
  12. 4/24 - Supersingular elliptic curves and Elkies' theorem (Shelly Manber)
  13. 5/2 - Arithmetic of the category of modules with integrable connection in characteristic p (Martin Olsson)