WALLS and DOORS

(We All Love Local Systems and DefOrmations Of Representations Seminar)

In this seminar, we (students of Stefan Patrikis) give talks on papers we read and topics we want to learn. It is the spiritual successor of the PANTS Seminar.

Spring 2024

• Mehmet Basaran: Practice presentation of candidacy proposal
  April 22 in MA105
• Jake Huryn: Practice presentation of candidacy proposal
  April 1
• Min Shi: Existence of quotients of affine algebraic groups
  March 18, March 20, March 25
• Luke Wiljanen: De Jong's conjecture and applications to deformation theory
  February 28, March 8
• Stefan Nikoloski: Chevalley's theorem on parabolic subgroups
  February 19, February 21
• Yifei Zhang: Affine algebraic groups are linear
  with a reading of A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
  February 5, February 7
  
• Mehmet Basaran: Computing the root systems of classical groups
  January 24
• Jake Huryn: Introduction to algebraic groups; detailed study of tori
  January 15, January 17

Summer 2023

• Stefan Nikoloski: Shafarevich's theorem
  August 9, August 16
• Min Shi: Two proofs of Tate's theorem
  August 2
• Yifei Zhang: The Weil conjectures
  July 26, July 31
• Jake Huryn: Étale companions over finite fields and Drinfeld's theorem
  July 19, July 24
• Min Shi: On Kuga–Satake constructions
  July 12
• Stefan Nikoloski: Ramakrishna's method of lifting residual representations
  July 5, July 17
• Luke Wiljanen: Local class field theory: a tale of two-cocycles
  June 21, June 28, July 3, July 17
• Mehmet Basaran: Opening the door to computing local deformation rings
  June 21, July 3
• Jake Huryn: Introduction to étale local systems and companions
  June 8, June 28