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 Thursdays, 4pm-5:30pm, with a short break in the middle, in MIT room 2-131 (not online!), unless indicated otherwise below.
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Spring 2024 topic: Serre, Lectures on the Mordell-Weil theorem.

Prerequisites: Algebraic geometry, number theory. Some familiarity with the arithmetic theory of elliptic curves will be helpful.

Main references: 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.
Schedule hosted at researchseminars.org
TimeSpeakerTitle
ThuFeb 0816:00Raymond van BommelHeight functions
ThuFeb 2216:00Xinyu ZhouNormalized heights
ThuFeb 2916:00Niven T. AchenjangThe Mordell-Weil theorem and Chabauty's theorem
ThuMar 0716:00Frank LuThe Demyanenko-Manin method and Mumford's inequality
ThuMar 2116:00Bjorn PoonenSiegel's method
ThuApr 0416:00Shiva ChidambaramBaker's method
ThuApr 1116:00Daniel HuThe Hilbert irreducibility theorem
ThuApr 1816:00Vijay SrinivasanConstruction of Galois extensions
ThuApr 2516:00Daniel LarsenThe large sieve
ThuMay 0216:00Jane ShiConstruction of elliptic curves of large rank
ThuMay 0916:00Hao PengApplications of the large sieve to thin sets
MonSep 0910:30Elia GorokhovskyComplex analytic spaces, vector bundles, and GAGA
MonSep 1610:30Xinyu FangLocal systems, fundamental groupoid, definition of connection
MonSep 2310:30Atticus WangIntegrable connections
MonSep 3010:30Kenta SuzukiRelationship to PDEs and nnth order differential equations
MonOct 0710:30Kenz KallalSecond order differential equations and projective connections
MonOct 2110:30Xinyu ZhouMultivalued functions, and abstract derivations and connections
MonOct 2810:30Julia MengRegular connections in dimension 1
MonNov 0410:30Mikayel MkrtchyanConnections with regular singularities in higher dimension
MonNov 1810:30Oakley EdensRegular connections in dimension nn
MonNov 2510:30Xinyu FangProof of the Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence
MonDec 0210:30Aashraya Jhade Rham cohomolgy and Gauss-Manin connections
MonDec 0910:30Michael BarzIrregular connections and the Stokes phenomena
ThuFeb 0617:00TBATBA
ThuFeb 1317:00TBATBA
ThuFeb 2017:00TBATBA
ThuFeb 2717:00TBATBA
ThuMar 0617:00TBATBA
ThuMar 1317:00TBATBA
ThuApr 0317:00TBATBA
ThuApr 1017:00TBATBA
ThuApr 1717:00TBATBA
ThuApr 2417:00TBATBA
ThuMay 0117:00TBATBA
ThuMay 0817:00TBATBA
ThuMay 1517:00TBATBA

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, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023

Organizers: Edgar Costa, Bjorn Poonen