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Special Year Seminar

Nov
01
2023

Special Year Seminar

On Local Systems of Geometric Origin
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

I will discuss the following conjecture: an irreducible $\bar{Q}$$_{\ell}$-local system L on a smooth complex algebraic variety S arises in cohomology of a family of varieties over S if and only if L can be extended to an etale local system over...

Nov
08
2023

Special Year Seminar

The Analytic de Rham Stack
Juan Esteban Rodriguez Camargo
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

In this talk, we introduce the analytic de Rham stack for rigid varieties over $Q_p$ (and more general analytic stacks). This object is an analytic incarnation of the (algebraic) de Rham stack of Simpson, and encodes a theory of analytic D-modules...

Nov
29
2023

Special Year Seminar

On Cohomology of BG
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Cohomology of classifying space/stack of a group G is the home which resides all characteristic classes of G-bundles/torsors. In this talk, we will try to explain some results on Hodge/de Rham cohomology of BG where G is a $p$-power order...

Dec
06
2023

Special Year Seminar

Mod-p Poincare Duality in p-adic Analytic Geometry
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Etale cohomology of $F_p$-local systems does not behave nicely on general smooth p-adic rigid-analytic spaces; e.g., the $F_p$-cohomology of the 1-dimensional closed unit ball is infinite. 

However, it turns out that the situation is much better if...

Dec
13
2023

Special Year Seminar

Moduli Stacks of $p$-adic Shtukas and Integral Models of Shimura Varieties
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The notion of $p$-adic shtukas are introduced by Scholze in his Berkeley lectures on $p$-adic geometry. They are closely related to $p$-divisible groups when their ``legs" are bounded by some minuscule cocharacter. But compared to $p$-divisible...

Jan
31
2024

Special Year Seminar

Sen Operators and Lie Algebras Arising From Galois Representations Over $p$-adic Varieties
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access
Feb
07
2024

Special Year Seminar

Dieudonné Theory via Prismatic F-gauges
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

In this talk, I will first describe how classical Dieudonne module of finite flat group schemes and $p$-divisible groups can be recovered from crystalline cohomology of classifying stacks. Then, I will explain how in mixed characteristics, using...

Feb
14
2024

Special Year Seminar

Motivic Cohomology of Mixed Characteristic Schemes
Tess Bouis
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

I will present a new theory of motivic cohomology for general (qcqs) schemes. It is related to non-connective algebraic K-theory via an Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence. In particular, it is non-$A^1$-invariant in general, but it recovers...

Feb
21
2024

Special Year Seminar

Crystals and $q$-Calculus
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

I will present two settings where $q$-De Rham and prismatic vector bundles can be described in terms of modules over an appropriate ring of $q$-twisted differential operators and also the relation with former results. 

This is a joint work with...

Feb
28
2024

Special Year Seminar

D-modules on the Fargues-Fontaine Curve
3:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Motivated by the desire to express in terms of de Rham data the pro-étale cohomology with non-trivial $\mathbb{Q}_p$-coefficients of rigid spaces $X$, defined over $\mathbb{Q}_p$ or $\mathbb{C}_p$, I will explain how to define D-modules on the...

Mar
27
2024

Special Year Seminar

On Endomorphisms of THH
Maxime Ramzi
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Topological Hochschild homology is an important invariant, closely related to algebraic K-theory, and can be seen as a noncommutative analogue of de Rham chains.

In this talk, I will describe various computations of the ring/monoid of endomorphisms...

Apr
03
2024

Special Year Seminar

The $v$-Picard Group of Stein Spaces
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

In this talk, I will present a computation of the image of the Hodge-Tate logarithm map (defined by Heuer) in the case of smooth Stein varieties. When the variety is the affine space, Heuer has proved that this image is equal to the group of closed...

Apr
10
2024

Special Year Seminar

Rationalized Syntomic Cohomology
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

A few years ago, Bhatt-Morrow-Scholze introduced an invariant of $p$-adic formal schemes called syntomic cohomology, which has a close relationship to (étale-localized) algebraic $K$-theory. In a recent paper, Antieau-Mathew-Morrow-Nikolaus showed...

Oct
07
2024

Special Year Seminar

Combinatorial Inequalities and Combinatorial Interpretations: Part I
2:00pm|Rubenstein Commons | Meeting Room 5

In the first talk, I will give a broad survey of classical inequalities that arise in enumerative and algebraic combinatorics.  I will discuss how these inequalities lead to questions about combinatorial interpretations, and how these questions...

Oct
08
2024

Special Year Seminar

Combinatorial Inequalities and Combinatorial Interpretations: Part II
2:00pm|Wolfensohn Hall

In the second talk, I will concentrate on polynomial inequalities and whether the defect (the difference of two sides) has a combinatorial interpretation.  For example, does the inequality  $x^2+y^2 \geq 2xy$  have a combinatorial proof and what...

Nov
11
2024

Special Year Seminar

Complete Monotonicity in Scattering Amplitudes
Johannes Henn
2:30pm|Rubenstein Commons | Meeting Room 5
Nov
25
2024

Special Year Seminar

Lower Bound Barriers in Complexity Theory and Overcoming Them With Geometry
Joseph Landsberg
10:00am|Wolfensohn Hall

Chapter 14 of the classic text "Computational Complexity" by Arora and Barak is titled "Circuit lower bounds: complexity theory's Waterloo". I will discuss the lower bound problem in the context of algebraic complexity where there are barriers...

Nov
25
2024

Special Year Seminar

Tensors of Minimal Border Rank
Joseph Landsberg
1:00pm|Wolfensohn Hall

A class of tensors, called "concise (m,m,m)-tensors  of minimal border rank", play an important role in proving upper bounds for the complexity of matrix multiplication. For that reason Problem 15.2 of "Algebraic Complexity Theory" by Bürgisser...

Dec
09
2024

Special Year Seminar

Tits's Dream: Buildings Over F1 and Combinatorial Flag Varieties
2:30pm|Rubenstein Commons | Meeting Room 5

The theme of the lecture is the notion of points over F1, the field with one element. Several heuristic computations led to certain expectations on the set of F1-points: for example the Euler characteristic of a smooth projective complex variety X...

Special Year Seminar I

Sep
18
2024

Special Year Seminar I

Toric Vector Bundles
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

This will be an expository talk on the structure and classification of equivariant vector bundles on toric varieties. I will emphasize Klyachko's classification results from the 1980s and 1990s and discuss more recent re-formulations of this...

Oct
02
2024

Special Year Seminar I

The Mysterious Kronecker Coefficients
11:00am|Rubenstein Commons | Meeting Room 5

The Kronecker coefficients of the Symmetric group $S_n$ are the multiplicities of an irreducible $S_n$ representation in the tensor product of two other irreducibles. They were introduced in 1938 by Murnaghan and generalize the beloved Littlewood...

Oct
09
2024

Special Year Seminar I

Combinatorial Inequalities and Combinatorial Interpretations: Part III
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

In the third talk, I will concentrate on inequalities for linear extensionsof finite posets.  I will start with several inequalities which do have a combinatorial proof.  I will then turn to Stanley's inequality and outline the proof why its defect...

Oct
16
2024

Special Year Seminar I

Discrete and Continuous Duality Algebras
Leonid Monin
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

A classical construction associates a Poincare duality algebra to a homogeneous polynomial on a vector space. This construction was used to give a presentation for cohomology rings of complete smooth toric varieties by Khovanskii and Pukhlikov and...

Oct
30
2024

Special Year Seminar I

Complexity of Log-concave Inequalities in Matroids
Swee Hong Chan
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

A sequence of nonnegative real numbers $a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_n$, is log-concave if $a_i^2 \geq a_{i-1}a_{i+1}$ for all $i$ ranging from 2 to $n-1$. Examples of log-concave inequalities range from inequalities that are readily provable, such as the...

Nov
06
2024

Special Year Seminar I

The Schubert Variety of a Pair of Linear Spaces
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

I will motivate the study of the Schubert variety of a pair of linear spaces via Kempf collapsing of vector bundles. I'll describe equations defining this variety and how this yields a simplicial complex determined by a pair of matroids which...

Nov
13
2024

Special Year Seminar I

The Moduli Space of Matroids
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Lecture Series Framework:  A unifying framework for F1-geometry, tropical schemes and matroid theory. In this series of 3 lectures, I will present a recent approach towards F1-geometry and its links to tropical geometry, matroid theory, Lorentzian...

Dec
04
2024

Special Year Seminar I

Geometric Vertex Decomposition
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

Vertex decomposition, introduced by Provan and Billera in 1980, is an inductive strategy for breaking down and understanding simplicial complexes. A simplicial complex that is vertex decomposable is shellable, hence Cohen--Macaulay. Through the...

Dec
11
2024

Special Year Seminar I

Standard Monomials for Positroid Varieties
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

Influential work of Hodge from the 1940s led the way in using Gröbner bases to combinatorially study the Grassmannian. We follow Hodge's approach to investigate certain subvarieties of the Grassmannian, called positroid varieties. Positroid...

Dec
18
2024

Special Year Seminar I

Singular Points on Positroid Varieties and Physics Applications
Joseph Fluegemann
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

We heard last week in Daoji's talk about positroid varieties, which are subvarieties in the Grassmannian defined by cyclic rank conditions, and which are related to Schubert varieties. In this talk, we will provide a criterion for whether positroid...

Jan
22
2025

Special Year Seminar I

Introduction to Equivariant Cohomology
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

Equivariant cohomology was introduced in the 1960s by Borel, and has been studied by many mathematicians since that time.  The talks will be an introduction to some of this work.  We will focus on torus-equivariant cohomology (as well as Borel-Moore...

Jan
29
2025

Special Year Seminar I

Products of Chern Classes of Matroid Tautological Bundles
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

In 2008, looking to bound the face vectors of tropical linear spaces, Speyer introduced the g-invariant of a matroid, defined in terms of exterior powers of tautological bundles on Grassmannians. He proved its coefficients nonnegative for matroids...

Feb
12
2025

Special Year Seminar I

Algebra for Oscillators: Khovanskii Bases
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

We will present recent applications of enumerative algebra to the study of stationary states in physics. Our point of departure are classical Newtonian differential equations with nonlinear potential. It turns out that the study of their stationary...

Feb
19
2025

Special Year Seminar I

Zonotopal Algebras, Configuration Spaces, and More
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

We consider the space of configurations of n points in the three-sphere $S^3$, some of which may coincide and some of which may not, up to the free and transitive action of $SU(2)$ on $S^3$. We prove that the cohomology ring with rational...

Feb
26
2025

Special Year Seminar I

The Generalized Pitman-Stanley Flow Polytope
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

In 1999, Pitman and Stanley introduced the polytope bearing their name along with a study of its faces, lattice points, and volume. This polytope is well-studied due to its connections to parking functions, lattice path matroids, generalized...

Mar
05
2025

Special Year Seminar I

Introduction to Equivariant K-theory
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

K-theory arose in the 1950s from Grothendieck’s formulation of the Riemann-Roch theorem – that is, from attempts to calculate spaces of sections of vector bundles on a variety X via intersection theory on X.  An equivariant version was introduced...

Mar
12
2025

Special Year Seminar I

Log-concavity of Polynomials Arising from Equivariant Cohomology
Yairon Cid-Ruiz
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

A remarkable result of Brändén and Huh tells us that volume polynomials of projective varieties are Lorentzian polynomials. The dual notion of covolume polynomials was introduced by Aluffi by considering the cohomology classes of subvarieties of a...

Mar
26
2025

Special Year Seminar I

Incidence Geometry and Tiled Surfaces
Sergey Fomin
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

We show that various classical theorems of linear incidence geometry, such as the theorems of Pappus, Desargues, Möbius, and so on, can be interpreted as special cases of a general result that involves a tiling of a closed oriented surface by...

Special Year Seminar II

Sep
19
2024

Special Year Seminar II

Tropical Vector Bundles
10:00am|Simonyi 101

In this talk, I will describe a new definition, joint with Bivas Khan, for a tropical toric vector bundle on a tropical toric variety. This builds on the tropicalizations of toric vector bundles, and can be used to define tropicalizations of vector...

Oct
17
2024

Special Year Seminar II

Representations on the Cohomology of the Moduli Space of Pointed Rational Curves
Donggun Lee
10:00am|Simonyi 101

The moduli space of pointed rational curves has a natural action of the symmetric group permuting the marked points.  In this talk, we will present a combinatorial formula for the induced representation on the cohomology of the moduli space, along...

Oct
17
2024

Special Year Seminar II

Scattering Amplitudes, Multi-variate Residues and Valuated Matroids
11:00am|Simonyi 101

Multi-variate residues on Grassmannians $G(k,n)$ and moduli spaces $M_{0,n}$ are ubiquitous in the study of scattering amplitudes; they provide a powerful and essential tool. Amenable theories include the biadjoint scalar, NLSM, Yang-Mills, gravity...

Oct
31
2024

Special Year Seminar II

MM-curves
Mario Kummer
10:00am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

For an embedded stable curve over the real numbers we introduce a hyperplane arrangement in the tangent space of the Hilbert scheme. The connected components of its complement are labeled by embeddings of the graph of the stable curve to a compact...