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Special Year Research Seminar

Apr
04
2023

Special Year Research Seminar

Polynomial Ergodic Theorems for Strongly Mixing Commuting Transformations
Rigoberto Zelada
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The goal of this talk is to present new results dealing with the asymptotic joint independence properties of commuting strongly mixing transformations along polynomials. These results form natural strongly mixing counterparts to various weakly and...

Apr
11
2023

Special Year Research Seminar

The Factorial Function and Generalizations, Revisited.
3:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

In 1996 Manjul Barghava introduced a notion of P-orderings for arbitrary sets S of a Dedekind domain, with respect to a prime ideal P, which defined associated invariants called P-sequences. He combined these invariants to define generalized...

Apr
18
2023

Special Year Research Seminar

Polynomial Patterns in Finite Fields: a Dynamical Point of View
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access


In its dynamical formulation, the Furstenberg—Sárközy theorem states that for any invertible measure-preserving system $(X, \mu, T)$, any set $A \subseteq X$ with $\mu(A) > 0$, and any integer polynomial $P$ with $P(0) = 0$,
$$c(A) = \lim_{N-M \to...

May
02
2023

Special Year Research Seminar

Pointwise Ergodic Theorems for Nonconventional Polynomial Averages
Ben Krause
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

I will discuss pointwise ergodic theory as it developed out of Bourgain's work in the 80s, leading up to my work with Mirek and Tao on bilinear ergodic averages.

May
09
2023

Special Year Research Seminar

Uniform Sets with Few Progressions via Colorings
Yufei Zhao
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Ruzsa asked whether there exist Fourier-uniform subsets of $\mathbb{Z}/N\mathbb{Z}$ with very few 4-term arithmetic progressions (4-AP). The standard pedagogical example of a Fourier uniform set with a "wrong" density of 4-APs actually has 4-AP...

May
16
2023

Special Year Research Seminar

Around Gauss Circle Problem: Hardy's Conjecture and the Distribution of Lattice Points Near Circles
Igor Wigman
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

This talk is based on a joint work with Steve Lester.

We review the Gauss circle problem, and Hardy's conjecture regarding the order of magnitude of the remainder term. It is attempted to rigorously formulate the folklore heuristics behind Hardy's...

May
30
2023

Special Year Research Seminar

Measure Doubling for Small Sets in SO(3,R)
Yifan Jing
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Let SO(3,R) be the 3D-rotation group equipped with the real-manifold topology and the normalized Haar measure \mu. Confirming a conjecture by Breuillard and Green, we show that if A is an open subset of SO(3,R) with sufficiently small measure, then...

Oct
09
2025

Special Year Research Seminar

Extensions of Globally Valued Fields and Arithmetic Geometry
1:00pm|Simonyi 101

Globally valued fields form a generalisation of global fields that fits into the context of first order (continuous) logic. I will describe these structures, and outline how they are connected to various parts of arithmetic geometry: Arakelov...

Oct
23
2025

Special Year Research Seminar

Preparation and Point Counting in Sharply O-minimal Structures
Oded Carmon
1:00pm|Simonyi 101

I will describe recent work in progress on logarithmic--exponential preparation theorems in analytically generated sharply o-minimal structures. Our results imply the sharp o-minimality of $\mathbb{R}_{\exp}$ as well as a uniform version of Wilkie’s...

Oct
30
2025

Special Year Research Seminar

Effective Computations for Weakly Special Loci
1:00pm|Simonyi 101

In this talk, I will discuss some effective computations for variations of integral Hodge structures.

Several years ago, with Ren and Javanpeykar-Kühne, I conjectured (in the Shimura setting) that a variation has only finitely many "non-factor"...

Nov
13
2025

Special Year Research Seminar

Isomonodromic Deformations of Flat Bundles and Codimension of Hodge Loci
Hank Morris
1:00pm|Simonyi 101

We give a lower bound on the codimension of a component of the non-abelian Hodge locus within a leaf of the isomonodromy foliation on the relative de Rham moduli space of flat vector bundles on an algebraic curve. The bound follows from a more...

Nov
14
2025

Special Year Research Seminar

Talk #1: On the Non-abelian Hodge Correspondence for Higher-dimensional Quasiprojective Varieties | Talk #2: Monodromy of Lagrangian Fibrations
Anh Tran and Edward Varvak
1:00pm|Simonyi 101

Speaker #1 (Tran): On a projective variety, Simpson showed that there is a homeomorphism between the moduli space of semisimple flat bundles and that of polystable Higgs bundles with vanishing Chern classes. Recently, Bakker, Brunebarbe and...

Nov
20
2025

Special Year Research Seminar

Introduction to Non-abelian Hodge Theory
1:00pm|Simonyi 101

The goal of these lectures is to present the fundamentals of Simpson’s correspondence, generalizing classical Hodge theory, between complex local systems and semistable Higgs bundles with vanishing Chern classes on smooth projective varieties.

Dec
04
2025

Special Year Research Seminar

Typical and Atypical Intersections: Geometry, Dynamics, and Applications
1:00pm|Simonyi 101

Many geometric spaces carry natural collections of special submanifolds that encode their internal symmetries. Examples include abelian varieties and their sub-abelian varieties, locally symmetric spaces with their totally geodesic subspaces, period...

Dec
11
2025

Special Year Research Seminar

Typical and Atypical Intersections: Geometry, Dynamics, and Applications
1:00pm|Simonyi 101

Many geometric spaces carry natural collections of special submanifolds that encode their internal symmetries. Examples include abelian varieties and their sub-abelian varieties, locally symmetric spaces with their totally geodesic subspaces, period...

Special Year Seminar

Sep
21
2023

Special Year Seminar

Organizational Meeting
10:00am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

This is the organizational meeting for a learning seminar during the fall term on topics related to non-abelian p-adic Hodge theory. 

Oct
11
2023

Special Year Seminar

Prismatic F-gauges and Fontaine-Laffaille Modules
Vadim Vologodsky
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

With every bounded prism Bhatt and Scholze associated a cohomology theory of formal p-adic schemes. The prismatic cohomology comes equipped with the Nygaard filtration and the Frobenius endomorphism. The Bhatt-Scholze construction has been advanced...

Oct
18
2023

Special Year Seminar

Test Ideals in Mixed Characteristic via the $p$-adic Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Multiplier ideals in characteristic zero and test ideals in positive characteristic are fundamental objects in the study of commutative algebra and birational geometry in equal characteristic.  We introduced a mixed characteristic version of the...

Oct
25
2023

Special Year Seminar

$p$-adic Hodge Theory and Simpson’s Correspondence
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

This talk will introduce background, achievements and challenges in the quest to find non-Archimedean versions of the celebrated Corlette-Simpson correspondence, which on Kähler manifolds relates representations of the fundamental group to certain...

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...