Special year - math workshop

Abstract: Which complex analytic spaces can arise as the universal cover of a complex algebraic variety? Motivated by this question, Shafarevich asked whether the universal cover of a smooth projective variety X is always holomorphically convex —...

Abstract:  Applications of o-minimality to unlikely intersection problems usually begin with the observation that the relevant analytic covering maps are definable.  However, this observation is almost never literally true in that the maps are...

Abstract: In this talk, we construct a Zariski open dense locus in $M_g$ on which the Beilinson-Bloch height of the Gross-Schoen and Ceresa cycles is a Weil height, i.e. it has a lower bound and satisfies the Northcott property. This implies a...

Abstract: Since Langlands's earliest paper on his now famous program, canonical integral models of Shimura varieties have occupied a central role in modern number theory. Steady progress has been made in the intervening 50 years toward the correct...

Abstract: In 2019, Dimitrov proved the Schinzel-Zassenhaus Conjecture. Harry Schmidt and I extended his general strategy to cover some dynamical variants of this conjecture. One common tool in both results is Dubinin's Theorem on the transfinite...

Abstract: We study a non-commutative counterpart $C_n(X)$ of the symmetric product $Sym^n X$ of a space $X$, defined as the space of nxn-matrix valued points on $X$. Our main result will be a precise formula for the cohomology of this space in great...

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I'll start by discussing some work with Binyamini, Schmidt, and Thomas in which we prove a uniform Manin-Mumford result for products of CM elliptic curves. I'll show how we apply this to obtain an effective Andre-Oort result for fibre...

Abstract: Given a family $X \rightarrow S$, one may consider the corresponding fiber-wise (quasi-) period integrals as (multi)-functions on S. Built out of these using a flag variety, one obtains variation of (mixed) hodge structures giving period...

Abstract: The anabelian phenomenon may be viewed as an arithmetic analogue of Mostow rigidity: it predicts that certain varieties can be reconstructed from their arithmetic fundamental groups. A celebrated result of S. Mochizuki shows that...

Abstract: Constructing completions of period mappings with significant geometric and Hodge-theoretical meaning is an important topic in Hodge theory and its applications. There are rich theories for the classical case in which the period domain is...