Previous Special Year Seminar

Nov
05
2025

Special Year Learning Seminar

Introduction to Differential Galois Theory
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

Differential Galois groups are algebraic groups that describe symmetries of some systems of differential equations. The solutions considered can live in any differential field and thus a natural framework to consider such symmetries is the setting...

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"...

Oct
29
2025

Special Year Learning Seminar

Intro to Hodge Theory
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

A Hodge structure is a certain linear algebraic datum.  Importantly, the cohomology groups of any smooth projective algebraic variety come equipped with Hodge structures which encode the integrals of algebraic differential forms over topological...

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
22
2025

Special Year Learning Seminar

Intro to o-minimality and point-counting: Part II
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

I'll focus specifically on point counting results in o-minimal structures. I'll start with the classical theorem of Pila and Wilkie and move on to improved versions that only hold in the "sharp" variant of o-minimality.

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
08
2025

Special Year Learning Seminar

Intro to o-minimality and point-counting: Part I
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

I'll introduce o-minimality from a user's perspective assuming zero background. I'll talk about some of the main examples of o-minimal structures: as a user of o-minimality your first goal is to find out whether your favorite set lives in one of...

May
29
2025

Special Year Seminar II

Fourier-Mukai Transform for Tropical Abelian Varieties
Farbod Shokrieh
10:00am|Simonyi 101

I will present a (cohomological) Fourier-Mukai transform for tropical Abelian varieties and give some applications, including a (generalized) Poincaré formula (for non-degenerate line bundles on tropical Abelian varieties).

Based on joint work with...

May
28
2025

Special Year Seminar I

Tropical Subrepresentations and Matroids
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

In their recent paper, Giansiracusa and Manaker introduced a notion of tropical subrepresentations of linear representations by considering linear actions on tropical linear spaces. In particular, this framework naturally brings matroids into the...

May
15
2025

Special Year Seminar II

On the Extremals of the Khovanskii-Teissier Inequality
10:00am|Simonyi 101

The Khovanskii-Teissier inequality provides the fundamental log-concavity property of intersection numbers of divisors of algebraic varieties, extending the Alexandrov-Fenchel inequality of convex geometry. In this talk I will explain, and attempt...