Abstract: This talk will be about joint work with Eyal Goren about the structure of Picard modular surfaces at a prime p which is inert in the underlying quadratic imaginary field. The main tool for studying the bad reduction of Shimura varieties is the theory of local models (due to de Jong and Rapoport-Zink). Our results concern global geometric questions which go beyond the theory of global models. For example, we are able to count supersingular curves on the Picard surface. We also study certain foliations in its tangent bundle that have not been studied before, and

In this expository talk we review the Selberg trace formula for compact Riemannian surfaces, and its application to the Weyl law via the heat kernel.

Abstract: my talk will be devoted to a basic theory of extensions of complete real-valued fields L/K. Naturally, one says that L is topologically-algebraically generated over K by a subset S if L lies in the completion of the algebraic closure of K(S). One can then define topological analogues of algebraic independence, transcendence degree, etc. These notions behave much more wierd than their algebraic analogues. For example, there exist non-invertible continuous K-endomorphisms of the completed algebraic closure of K(x). In my talk, I will tell which part

Abstract: Inseparable morphisms proved to be an important tool for the study of algebraic varieties in characteristic p. In particular, Rudakov-Shafarevitch, Miyaoka and Ekedahl have constructed a dictionary between "height 1" foliations in the tangent bundle and "height 1" purely inseparable quotients of a non-singular variety in characteristic p. In a joint work with Eyal Goren we use this dictionary to study the special fiber S of a unitary Shimura variety of signature (n,m), m < n, at a prime p which is inert in the underlying imaginary quadratic field. We

I discuss some class of function of several elliptic variables, this functions generalize multiple polylogarithms of D. Zagier. I show some applications of developed formalism. This is a joint work with F. Brown.

Abstract: I will start with a motivation of what algebraic (and model-theoretic) properties an algebraically closed field of characteristic 1 is expected to have. Then I will explain how these properties can be obtained by the well-known in model theory Hrushovski's construction and then formulate very precise axioms that such a field must satisfy. The axioms have a form of statements about existence of solutions to systems of equations in terms of a 'multi-dimansional' valuation theory and the validity of these statements is an open problem to be discussed.

Abstract: In the last five years Bridgeland stability has revolutionized our understanding of the geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves on surfaces, allowing us to compute ample and effective cones and describe different birational models. In this talk, I will survey some of my joint work with Daniele Arcara, Aaron Bertram, Jack Huizenga and Matthew Woolf on the birational geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves on the plane. I will describe the ample and effective cones of these moduli spaces, concentrating on Hilbert schemes of points and concrete examples.

Many of the main conjectures in Iwasawa theory can be phrased as saying that the first Chern class of an Iwasawa module is generated by a p-adic L-series. In this talk I will describe how higher Chern classes pertain to the higher codimension behavior of Iwasawa modules. I'll then describe a template for conjectures which would link such higher Chern classes to elements in the K-theory of Iwasawa algebras which are constructed from tuples of Katz p-adic L-series. I will finally describe an instance in which a result of

The functoriality conjecture is a key ingredient in the theory of automorphic forms and the Langlands program. Given two reductive groups G and H, the principle of functoriality asserts that a map r:H^->G^ between their dual complex groups should naturally give rise to a map r*:Rep(H)->Rep(G) between their automorphic representations. In this talk, I will describe the idea of functoriality, its connection to L-functions and recent work on weak functorial lifts to the exceptional group of type G_2.

In his investigation of modular forms of half-integral weight, Shimura established, using Hecke theory, a family of relations between eigneforms of half-integral weight k+1/2 with a given level 4N and character chi and cusp forms of weight 2k and character chi^2. The level being subsequently determined by Niwa to be at most 2N.

Abstract: Let X be a regular scheme, projective and flat over Spec Z. We give a conjectural formula in terms of motivic cohomology, singular cohomology and de Rham cohomology for the special value of the zeta-function of X at any rational integer. We will explain how this reduces to the standard formula for the residue of the Dedekind zeta-function at s = 1. ‏האירוע הזה כולל שיחת וידאו ב-Google Hangouts.

Abstract: Calabi conjectured that the complex Monge-Ampère equation on compact Kaehler manifolds has a unique solution. This was solved by Yau in 1978. In this talk, we present a non-archimedean version on projective Berkovich spaces. In joint work with Burgos, Jell, Künnemann and Martin, we improve a result of Boucksom, Favre and Jonsson in the equicharacteristic 0 case. We give also a result in positive equicharacteristic using test ideals.

In this talk we present a database of rational elliptic curves with good reduction outside certain finite sets of primes, including the set {2, 3, 5, 7, 11}, and all sets whose product is at most 1000. In fact this is a biproduct of a larger project, in which we construct practical algorithms to solve S-unit, Mordell, cubic Thue, cubic Thue--Mahler, as well as generalized Ramanujan--Nagell equations, and to compute S-integral points on rational elliptic curves with given Mordell--Weil basis. Our algorithms rely on new height bounds, which we obtained using the