Oberseminar Algebra und Geometrie

Summer term 2024: Mixed topics

Chaired by I. Halupczok, H. Kammeyer and B. Klopsch.

All talks take place on Fridays at 14:30 in 25.22.03.73.

This term, instead of having a fixed topic, we will have mixed topics, mainly with guest speakers. Please get it touch if you have a suggestion on whom to invite. Note also the changed time of the seminar.

If you want get announcements about the seminar, please get in touch with I. Halupczok so that your address is added to the mailing list.

Infos für Studierende

Im SoSe 2024 wird das Seminar (hauptsächlich?) aus in sich abgeschlossenen Einzel-Vorträgen bestehen, größtenteils von externen Gästen, und größtenteils über aktulelle Forschungsthemen. Das Oberseminar richtet sich an alle, die einen Einblick in aktuelle Forschung erhalten möchten, ist aber tendenziell eher für fortgeschrittene Studierende geeignet (ab Master). Besonders empfohlen wird die Teilnahme an Oberseminaren, wenn Sie sich vorstellen können zu promovieren.

Wenn Sie intessiert sind, können Sie sich einfach (ohne Anmeldung) ins Seminar reinsetzen - gerne auch nur zu einzelnen Vorträgen, die Sie interessieren.

Die Vorträge in diesem Oberseminar sind auf englisch. Üblicherweise nehmen an Oberseminaren auch viele Doktorand:innen, Postdocs und Professor:innen teil. Wahrscheinlich werden Sie nicht alles verstehen; das passiert aber auch den fortgeschritteneren Teilnehmer:innen, und auch, wenn man nicht alles verstanden hat, hat man doch am Ende oft einen interessanten Einblick in ein neues Thema erhalten.

Schedule

  • 12.4.: Johannes Ebert (Uni Münster): Tautological Classes and Higher Signatures

    Abstract: For a bundle of smooth oriented $d$-manifolds $\pi: E \to X$, a map $f:E \to BG$ to the classifying space of a discrete group G and $u \in H^p(B;\mathbb{Q})$, one defines the tautological classes associated to the higher signatures by the formula $\kappa_{\mathcal{L}_m,u} (E,f):= \pi_! (\mathcal{L}_m(T_v E) \cup f^* u) \in H^{4m+p-d}(X;\mathbb{Q})$, where $\mathcal{L}_m$ is the $m$th component of the Hirzebruch $L$-class. When $4m+p-d=0$, this gives the Novikov higher signatures. It is well-known that when $G=1$ and $d$ is odd, these classes are always $0$. We shall show that the question whether these classes vanish or not depends sensitively on the group $G$.

  • 19.4.: Sira Busch (Uni Münster): Projectivity groups of spherical buildings

    Abstract: Buildings are combinatorial and geometric structures that were introduced by Jacques Tits for the study of semi-simple algebraic groups. They turned out to be very helpful and interesting objects of study on their own. When we see the structure of a building and want to work with it, it can sometimes be useful to know, whether or not non-trivial automorphisms of the building exist. In my talk I would like to explain what a building is and under which circumstances we know for sure that our building has a rich automorphism group. Given a building with a rich automorphism group, interesting questions are, what kind of automorphisms we can find, if automorphisms with certain properties exist and if there is a relation to other known concepts. At the moment Hendrik Van Maldeghem, Jeroen Schillewaert and me are working on determining the special and general groups of projectivities of all (thick, irreducible) spherical buildings. In my talk I would also like to give some insight into that; specifically for the example of buildings of type A_n (which correspond to projective spaces).

  • (26.4.: no seminar, due to the Felix Klein Colloqium on the 25th)
  • 3.5.: tba
  • 10.5.: tba (Brückentag)
  • 17.5.: tba
  • 24.5.: Ralf Köhl (CAU Kiel)
  • 31.5.: tba (Brückentag)
  • 7.6.: Stavroula Makri (Nicolaus Copernicus University of Torun)
  • 14.6.: Robin Sroka (Uni Münster)
  • 21.6.: tba
  • 28.6.: Ilaria Castellano (Uni Bielefeld)
  • 5.7.: Sonia Petschick (Uni Wuppertal)
  • 12.7.: Quy Thuong Lê (Hanoi)
  • 19.7.: Jamshid Derakhshan (Oxford)

Archive

WS 2023/24: Central Simple Algebras

SS 2023: Knot theory and quandles

WS 2022/23: Combinatorics and Commutative Algebra

SS 2022: Discrete Groups, Expanding Graphs and Invariant Measures

WS 2021/22: Superrigidity

SS 2021: Group cohomology

SS 2020 and WS 20/21: cancelled due to pandemic

WS 2019/20: Intersection theory

SS 2019: Knots and primes

WS 2018/19: The Grothendieck group of varieties and stacks

SS 2018: Arithmetic Groups - Basics and Selected Applications

WS 2017/18: Algebraic K-theory

SS 2017: Berkovich spaces

WS 16/17: Resolution of singularities and alterations

SS 2016: Modular Representation Theory

WS 15/16: The Milnor Conjectures

SS 2015: Rationality

WS 14/15: Essential Dimension

SS 2014: Varieties of Representations

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