Seminar on Topics in Arithmetic, Geometry, Etc.

STAGE is a seminar in algebraic geometry and number theory, featuring speakers talking about work that is not their own. Talks will be at a level suitable for graduate students. Everyone is welcome.
Meetings are held on Mondays, 11am-12 in MIT room 66-160.
To receive announcements by email, add yourself to the STAGE mailing list.

Fall 2014 topic: The projective line minus three points.

A syllabus for the seminar with a brief overview of topics to be covered and references.

September 8: François Charles: Overview of topic and organizational meeting. Periods, motivic Galois groups, P^1 minus three points, result of Brown.
September 15: Isabel Vogt: Belyi's theorem.
September 22: Padmavathi Srinivasan: Tannakian categories.
September 29: Renée Bell: Periods and cohomology of algebraic varieties.
October 6: David Corwin: Topological aspects of the fundamental group of the projective line minus three points.
October 13: NO SEMINAR (Holiday)
October 20: Koji Shimizu: Motivic aspects of the fundamental group of the projective line minus three points.
October 27: Yunqing Tang: Multiple zeta values and their relationship with the fundamental group of the projective line minus three points. Mixed Tate motives over the integers.
November 3: Ruthi Hortsch: Definition of motives. Borel's Theorem (in algebraic K-theory).
November 10: NO SEMINAR (Holiday)
November 17: Chao Li: Galois group of the mixed Tate module of the integers and its motivic K-theory.
November 24: Nicholas Triantafillou: Initial results on multiple zeta values.
December 1: David Corwin: Reduction of Brown's theorem.
December 8: Padmavathi Srinivasan: Proof of Brown's theorem.

Past semesters: Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014. For semesters up to and including Spring 2009, see the old STAGE webpage.

Organizers: François Charles and Ruthi Hortsch