Special Year 2025-2026: Arithmetic Geometry, Hodge Theory, and O-minimality

Special Year Research Seminar

October 30, 2025 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm

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"...

Special Year Learning Seminar

October 29, 2025 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

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...

Special Year Research Seminar

October 23, 2025 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm

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...

Special Year Learning Seminar

October 22, 2025 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

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.

Workshop on Special Cycles and Related Topics

October 17, 2025 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Abstract: I'll talk about some classical problems around orthogonal polynomials and harmonic analysis that fall into the "unlikely intersection" paradigm: they can be reformulated as questions about counting integers in definable sets whose...

Workshop on Special Cycles and Related Topics

October 17, 2025 | 10:45am - 11:45am

Abstract: Given a local system on a complex algebraic variety, what are the subvarieties on which the monodromy drops? The talk will discuss these monodromy special loci, a natural generalisation of (the positive period dimension components of) the...

Workshop on Special Cycles and Related Topics

October 16, 2025 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Abstract: : Let $g$:$X \rightarrow S$ be a smooth proper family over algebraic varieties over a number field $K$. Consider the statement $W(g,p)$: the weight-monodromy conjectures hold for all fibres of g defined over a finite extension $L/Q_p$. We...

Workshop on Special Cycles and Related Topics

October 16, 2025 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Abstract: To show that the Gamma function, restricted to the positive real half-axis, generates an o-minimal structure over the real field, we had to show (in collaboration with Lou van den Dries) that the expansion of the real field by all...

Workshop on Special Cycles and Related Topics

October 16, 2025 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Abstract: The Zilber-Pink conjecture is a far reaching and widely open conjecture in the area of "unlikely intersections" generalizing many previous results in the area, such as the recently established André-Oort conjecture. Recently the ``G...

Workshop on Special Cycles and Related Topics

October 16, 2025 | 10:45am - 11:45am

Abstract: The classical Rees construction (of common use in commutative algebra and Hodge theory) interpolates between filtrations, viewed as $G_m$-equivariant vector bundles on the affine line, and their associated gradings. Various non-abelian...