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 Fridays, 10am-12 in MIT room 2-132, unless indicated otherwise below. Talks will generally run only 90 minutes, however.
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If you are interested in giving one of the talks, please contact the organizers.

Fall 2019 topic: Formal groups and p-divisible groups.

References to be followed: Other references: Some topics below might take more or less time than allotted. If a speaker runs out of time on a certain date, that speaker might be allowed to borrow some time on the next date. So the topics below might not line up exactly with the dates below.

September 6: Zhiyu Zhang. Formal group laws (Zink, Chapter 1, Sections 1-5)
September 13: Borys Kadets. Formal group laws (Zink, Chapter 1, Sections 6-10)
September 20: NO SEMINAR (Student holiday)
September 27: Hyuk Jun Kweon. Formal groups as functors (Zink, Chapter 2, Sections 1-3)
October 4: Alex Smith. Reconstructing a formal group from its Cartier module (Zink, Chapter 3)
October 11: Naomi Sweeting. Basic Cartier theory. Group schemes and formal group schemes (Zink, Chapter 3; Demazure Chapter 2)
October 18: Borys Kadets. Finite flat group schemes (Demazure, Chapter 2)
October 25: NO SEMINAR
November 1: Tony Feng. p-divisible groups I
November 8: Andreas Mihatsch. p-divisible groups II: the Hodge-Tate decomposition theorem
November 15: Syed Waqar Ali Shah. Dieudonne theory I
November 22: Syed Waqar Ali Shah. Dieudonne theory II: Classification
November 29: NO SEMINAR (Thanksgiving break)
December 6: Zhiyu Zhang. p-divisible groups over O_C
December 13: Hood Chatham. Lubin-Tate theory

Past semesters: Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019

Organizers: Borys Kadets, Bjorn Poonen, Zhiwei Yun