Previous Special Year Seminar

I will give an introduction to spaces of jets of algebraic varieties, explining their relevance for birational geometry. In particular, I will explain why these spaces are useful in the study of singularities.

In Lafforgue's proof of the Langlands conjecture for GL(2) over a functional field, an important step is to compactify the moduli spaces of Drinfeld's shtukas. In this talk, I will present a new approach to this problem using the Geometric Invariant...

We will discuss the ideas of the proof of the finite generation theorem, by looking at several special cases.