Geometric Langlands Seminar

This is an archive of email messages concerning the Geometric Langlands Seminar for 11-12.



  • Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:52:32

  • As usual, the seminar will meet on Mondays and/or Thursdays in room E206
    at 4:30 p.m.
    
    First meeting: October 3.
    
    Here is the program for the nearest future.
    
    Oct 3 (Monday): Dinesh Thakur (Arizona), Multizeta and related structures
    in Function Field Arithmetic.
    
    Oct 6 (Thursday), Oct 10 (Monday), Oct 17 (Monday), and Oct 20 (Thursday):
    Michael Temkin (Hebrew University), Non-archimedean analytic geometry via
    Berkovich spaces and birational geometry via Riemann-Zariski spaces.
    
    Oct 13 (Thursday): James Arthur (Toronto), TBA.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:27:47

  • Monday (Oct 3), 4:30 p.m, room E 206.
    
    Dinesh Thakur (Arizona).
    Multizeta and related structures in Function Field Arithmetic.
    
                                 Abstract
    
    We will discuss arithmetic of special values of function field valued
    Gamma, Zeta, and Multizeta: relations between them, relations with periods
    of pure and mixed t-motives and Shtukas, Galois groups, class groups,
    class modules etc. We do not understand the fundamental group or
    associator-type connection, but do have some hints for the underlying
    structures.
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:05:08

  • Thursday (Oct 6), 4:30 p.m, room E 206.
    Michael Temkin (Hebrew University) will give the first lecture of his
    minicourse on
    
    Non-archimedean analytic geometry via Berkovich spaces and birational
    geometry via Riemann-Zariski spaces.
    
                                 Abstract
    
    The aim of this minicourse is to outline basic theories of Berkovich analytic
    spaces and Riemann-Zariski birational spaces, and various connections
    between them. In particular, I will show how RZ spaces are used to study
    analytic spaces and vice versa. The minicourse will consists of four talks
    and its approximate plan is as follows:
    
    Talk 1. Banach rings and their Berkovich spectrum, affinoid algebras   and
    spaces.
    
    Talk 2. General analytic spaces and basic classes of morphisms. Relations to
    other categories: algebraization and GAGA, generic fibers of formal schemes
    and Raynaud's theory.
    
    Talk 3. Classical RZ spaces and local properties of analytic spaces. Analytic
    curves and stable reduction theorem.
    
    Talk 4. Relative RZ spaces. Applications of absolute and relative RZ spaces:
    stable modification, desingularization, Nagata compactification.
    
    A good reference for the first three talks is my lecture notes at
    http://www.math.huji.ac.il/~temkin/papers/Lecture_Notes_Berkovich_Analytic_Spaces.pdf
    
    The last talk will be related to some extent to the (old fashioned) slides at
    http://www.math.huji.ac.il/~temkin/lectures/RZ.pdf
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:24:53

  • Monday (Oct 10), 4:30 p.m, room E 206.
    
    Michael Temkin. Non-archimedean analytic geometry via Berkovich spaces and
    birational geometry via Riemann-Zariski spaces. II.
    
    
    


  • Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:03:24

  • Thursday (Oct 13), 4:30 p.m, room E 206.
    James Arthur (Toronto). Representations of orthogonal and symplectic groups.
    
                                 Abstract
    
    Suppose that G is a connected, quasisplit orthogonal or symplectic group 
    over a number field F. I shall review the statements of theorems that 
    classify automorphic representations of G. The proof of these theorems 
    rests on an extended argument that is ultimately based on the comparison 
    of trace formulas, specifically, the stabilization of the trace formula 
    for G, and the conditional stabilization of the twisted trace formula  for
    GL(N). I shall try to give some overview of the proof, insofar as  this is
    feasible in the time available. If time permits, I could also  add a
    couple or remarks on some of the basic implications of the
    theorems, and perhaps add a few
    comments on how the classification would extend to inner forms of G.
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:12:11

  • Monday (Oct 17), 4:30 p.m, room E 206.
    
    Michael Temkin. Non-archimedean analytic geometry via Berkovich spaces and
    birational geometry via Riemann-Zariski spaces. III.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:10:59

  • Thursday (Oct 20), 4:30 p.m, room E 206.
    
    Michael Temkin. Non-archimedean analytic geometry via Berkovich spaces and
    birational geometry via Riemann-Zariski spaces. IV.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:26:10

  • Monday (Oct 24), 4:30 p.m, room E 206.
    
    Michael Temkin. Non-archimedean analytic geometry via Berkovich spaces and
    birational geometry via Riemann-Zariski spaces. V.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:40:50

  • No seminar on Thursday (Oct 27).
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:16:04

  • Monday (Oct 31), 4:30 p.m, room E 206.
    
    Victor Ginzburg. Quantum cohomology of symplectic resolutions, its
    monodromy, and applications to representation theory
    
                        Abstract
    
    This talk is an introduction to Bezrukavnikov's lectures on
    November 3 and 7. We follow closely the exposition given by Okounkov a few
    weeks ago.
    
    Symplectic resolutions include cotangent bundles to flag varieties,
    Hilbert scheme of points, and quiver varieties.  It turns out that
    equivariant quantum cohomology of these varieties, and an associated
    Dubrovin connection, are closely related to representation theory of
    various interesting noncommutative algebras, such as enveloping algebras,
    Yangians, and symplectic reflection algebras. Motivated by mirror symmetry
    considerations, Bezrukavnikov  made a conjecture that relates the derived
    category of coherent sheaves on a symplectic resolution to the monodromy
    of the Dubrovin connection. This conjecture is a vast generalization of,
    and has applications to Lusztig's theory of canonical bases.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:01:14

  • Thursday (Nov 3)  and Monday (Nov 7),  4:30 p.m, room E 206.
    
    Roman Bezrukavnikov (MIT). Geometry and algebra of quantized symplectic
    resolutions.
    
                       Abstract
    
    Quantization of a symplectic resolution of singularities produces
    noncommutative algebras of interest in representation theory: the most
    classical example is (a central reduction of) the universal enveloping of
    a semi-simple Lie algebra, more modern ones come from symplectic
    reflection algebras (in particular rational double affine Hecke algebras)
    and more general quiver algebras. I will describe an attempt to control
    numerics of their representations (over base fields of various
    characteristics) by a Kazhdan-Lusztig style formalism, and link it to
    Bridgeland stability conditions and equivariant quantum cohomology. The
    talks are based on joint work with Anno, Mirkovic and Okounkov.
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 18:55:16

  • Monday (Nov 7),  4:30 p.m, room E 206.
    
    Roman Bezrukavnikov (MIT).
    Geometry and algebra of quantized symplectic resolutions. II.
    
                       Abstract
    
    Quantization of a symplectic resolution of singularities produces
    noncommutative algebras of interest in representation theory: the most
    classical example is (a central reduction of) the universal enveloping of
    a semi-simple Lie algebra, more modern ones come from symplectic
    reflection algebras (in particular rational double affine Hecke algebras)
    and more general quiver algebras. I will describe an attempt to control
    numerics of their representations (over base fields of various
    characteristics) by a Kazhdan-Lusztig style formalism, and link it to
    Bridgeland stability conditions and equivariant quantum cohomology. The
    talks are based on joint work with Anno, Mirkovic and Okounkov.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 14:16:04

  • No more meetings of the seminar this quarter (as far as I can see).
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:03:29

  • We begin the winter quarter with a series of talks by Ian Le (NWU) on
    Deligne's article "Finitude de l'extension de Q engendr\'ee par des traces
    de Frobenius, en caracteristique finie", which is available here:
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/Deligne_article.pdf
    
    (In my talks last spring I used the result of this article without
    explaining the proof.)
    
    Ian's first talk will be on Thursday January 5.
    
    After Ian's talks, Beilinson will give a series of lectures on his work
    "On the crystalline period map", arXiv:1111.3316
    
    As usual, we meet on Mondays and/or Thursdays, 4:30 p.m, room E 206.
    
    
    Happy New Year!
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 09:05:16

  • Thursday (Jan 5), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206
    
    Ian Le (NWU).  Deligne's proof of the finiteness of the extension of Q
    generated by traces of Frobenius in characteristic p>0.
    
    Deligne's article is available here:
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/Deligne_article.pdf
    
    Notes on Deligne's proof by H.Esnault and M.Kerz are here:
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/Esnault-Kerz2.pdf
    
    
                      Abstract
    
    In his paper, Deligne shows that for a scheme Z over F_q, and an
    l-adic local system F on Z that has determinant of finite order, the field
    generated by the traces of Frobenius acting on the fibers of F is a finite
    extension of Q. This result was used by Drinfeld in his recent paper, "On
    a conjecture of Deligne."
    
    The outline of the talk is as follows:
    
    1) Review of the case of curves, for which the theorem follows from work
    of Lafforgue on the Langlands correspondence. We will rephrase these
    results in a form useful for our purposes. This will involve recalling
    some important facts about the structure of l-adic sheaves from Deligne's
    Weil II.
    
    2) Quantitative version of Lafforgue's result in the case of curves. One
    consequence of Lafforgue's work is that for a curve X over F_q and an
    l-adic local system F on X, there exists N such that the field
    generated by the traces of Frobenius at all points of X is generated by
    the traces of Frobenius at the points X(F_{q^n}) for n<N. Here, we will
    give bounds, in terms of the "complexity' of a curve (as
    measuredby H^1), on the size of the N. The key idea in obtaining this
    bound comes from showing that the traces of Frobenius at points of
    X(F_{q^n}), viewed as a function on the finite set X(F_{q^n}), are "almost
    orthogonal." This can be viewed as an analogue of the
    orthogonality of characters in group theory.
    
    3) Let Z be a scheme over F_q and F an l-adic local system of Z. By
    constructing curves of low complexity through any point in Z, we will show
    that the field generated by the traces of Frobenius acting on F is
    generated by the traces of Frobenius at the points Z(F_{q^n}) for n less
    than some N.
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 19:09:13

  • Monday (Jan 9), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206
    
    Ian Le (NWU).  Deligne's proof of the finiteness of the extension of Q
    generated by traces of Frobenius in characteristic p>0. II.
    
    > Deligne's article is available here:
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/Deligne_article.pdf
    
    > Notes on Deligne's proof by H.Esnault and M.Kerz are here:
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/Esnault-Kerz2.pdf
    
    
    >                   Abstract
    >
    > In his paper, Deligne shows that for a scheme Z over F_q, and an l-adic
    local system F on Z that has determinant of finite order, the
    field
    > generated by the traces of Frobenius acting on the fibers of F is a
    finite
    > extension of Q. This result was used by Drinfeld in his recent paper,
    "On
    > a conjecture of Deligne."
    >
    > The outline of the talk is as follows:
    >
    > 1) Review of the case of curves, for which the theorem follows from work
    of Lafforgue on the Langlands correspondence. We will rephrase these
    results in a form useful for our purposes. This will involve recalling
    some important facts about the structure of l-adic sheaves from
    Deligne's
    > Weil II.
    >
    > 2) Quantitative version of Lafforgue's result in the case of curves. One
    consequence of Lafforgue's work is that for a curve X over F_q and an
    l-adic local system F on X, there exists N such that the field
    > generated by the traces of Frobenius at all points of X is generated by
    the traces of Frobenius at the points X(F_{q^n}) for n<N. Here, we will
    give bounds, in terms of the "complexity' of a curve (as
    > measuredby H^1), on the size of the N. The key idea in obtaining this
    bound comes from showing that the traces of Frobenius at points of
    X(F_{q^n}), viewed as a function on the finite set X(F_{q^n}), are
    "almost
    > orthogonal." This can be viewed as an analogue of the
    > orthogonality of characters in group theory.
    >
    > 3) Let Z be a scheme over F_q and F an l-adic local system of Z. By
    constructing curves of low complexity through any point in Z, we will
    show
    > that the field generated by the traces of Frobenius acting on F is
    generated by the traces of Frobenius at the points Z(F_{q^n}) for n less
    than some N.
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:50:28

  • No seminar on Thursday.
    
    Monday (Jan 16), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206.
    
    Takeshi Saito (University of Tokyo)
    A Riemann-Roch formula for l-adic sheaves on
    varieties over a local field (joint work with K. Kato)
    
              Abstract
    
    The wild ramification of a l-adic representation of a local field
    is measured by the Swan conductor. We generalize the definition
    to a constructible l-adic sheaf on a variety over a local field and prove
    a Riemann-Roch formula.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:13:20

  • Monday (Jan 16), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206.
    
    Takeshi Saito (University of Tokyo)
    A Riemann-Roch formula for l-adic sheaves on
    varieties over a local field (joint work with K. Kato)
    
              Abstract
    
    The wild ramification of a l-adic representation of a local field
    is measured by the Swan conductor. We generalize the definition
    to a constructible l-adic sheaf on a variety over a local field and prove
    a Riemann-Roch formula.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:55:05

  • No seminar on Thursday (Jan 19).
    
    On Monday (Jan 23) Beilinson will begin his series of lectures on his work
    "On the crystalline period map", arXiv:1111.3316
    
    


  • Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:27:42

  • Monday (Jan 23), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206.
    
    Alexander Beilinson will begin his series of lectures on
    p-adic Hodge theory.
    (As you see from his abstract, he will begin from scratch ! )
    
    Title: Introduction to p-adic Hodge theory.
    
    
    
              Abstract
    
    I will discuss a recent approach to p-adic Hodge
    theory (the Fontaine-Jannsen C_{st} conjecture) based on the
    p-adic Poincar'e lemma.
    
    The first talk(s) review the de Rham/log crystalline part of the story
    developed in works of Kato and Hyodo-Kato from the end of 1980s.
    No knowledge of the subject is assumed.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:17:17

  • This to remind you that today Beilinson is beginning his series of
    lectures on p-adic Hodge theory.
    
    He will begin from scratch, and he says that the theory is becoming
    very simple !
    
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    Monday (Jan 23), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206.
    
    
    Title: Introduction to p-adic Hodge theory.
    
    
    
              Abstract
    
    I will discuss a recent approach to p-adic Hodge
    theory (the Fontaine-Jannsen C_{st} conjecture) based on the
    p-adic Poincar'e lemma.
    
    The first talk(s) review the de Rham/log crystalline part of the story
    developed in works of Kato and Hyodo-Kato from the end of 1980s.
    No knowledge of the subject is assumed.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:06:42

  • No seminar on Thursday.
    Beilinson will continue on Monday (Jan 30).
    
    


  • Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:24:39

  • Some articles mentioned in Beilinson's talk can be downloaded here:
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/p-adic_periods/Kato_log-structures.pdf
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/p-adic_periods/Bhargav_Bhatt&deJong.pdf
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/p-adic_periods/Bhatt-p-adic_derived_de_Rham.pdf
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/p-adic_periods/Brinon+Brian_Conrad.pdf
    
    Here is a book on log structures written by Ogus (Beilinson says it is good):
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/p-adic_periods/Ogus_logbook.pdf
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:54:00

  • Beilinson will continue on
    Monday (Jan 30), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206.
    
    As I said, some articles mentioned in Beilinson's first talk
    and also the book on log structures written by Ogus can be downloaded here:
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/p-adic_periods/Kato_log-structures.pdf
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/p-adic_periods/Bhargav_Bhatt&deJong.pdf
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/p-adic_periods/Bhatt-p-adic_derived_de_Rham.pdf
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/p-adic_periods/Brinon+Brian_Conrad.pdf
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/p-adic_periods/Ogus_logbook.pdf
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:55:38

  • Beilinson will continue on
    Thursday (Feb 2), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206.
    
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    Probably to understand Beilinson, one should have a look at the
    following articles:
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/p-adic_periods/Kato_log-structures.pdf
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/p-adic_periods/Bhargav_Bhatt&deJong.pdf
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 20:10:40

  • The date of the next seminar will be announced later.
    
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    The articles by Kato and Hyodo-Kato are available here:
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~mmorrow/Miscpapers/
    
    On the other hand, Fontaine's articles mentioned in Sasha's first talk are
    available here:
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/p-adic_periods/Fontaine-corps_de_periodes.pdf
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/p-adic_periods/Fontaine-reps_semistables.pdf
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:42:59

  • Beilinson will continue on
    Monday (Feb 6), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206.
    
    I didn't understand the Hyodo-Kato theory.
    So I asked Sasha to explain it again from scratch.
    
        *******
    
    Illusie's notes mentioned by Sasha are here:
    http://www.math.u-psud.fr/~illusie/Illusie-Sapporo1.pdf
    http://www.math.u-psud.fr/~illusie/Illusie-Sapporo-Hyodo-Kato.pdf
    
    The articles by Kato and Hyodo-Kato are available here:
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~mmorrow/Miscpapers/
    
    Fontaine's articles mentioned in Sasha's first talk are available here:
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/p-adic_periods/Fontaine-corps_de_periodes.pdf
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/p-adic_periods/Fontaine-reps_semistables.pdf
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 19:09:04

  • Thursday (Feb 9), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206.
    David Kazhdan (Hebrew University).  Arithmetic varieties.
    
    (Beilinson will continue next Monday.)
    
    
    [I asked Kazhdan to speak on his old work on conjugation of
    arithmetic varieties. Note that the proofs of the general results in the
    theory of Shimura varieties are still based on it! ]
    
               Abstract of Kazhdan's talk
    
    Let G be a semisimple Lie group such that the symmetric space D=G/K admits a
    G-invariant complex structure. Then for any arithmetic subgroup $\Gamma$
    in G, the quotient of  D by $\Gamma$ is an analytic variety which has a
    canonical structure of an algebraic variety over the field of complex
    numbers, C. So if $\sigma$ is any automorphism of C one can consider the
    $\sigma$-conjugate variety. I will discuss the proof of the following result.
    
    Theorem. The conjugate variety is a quotient of D by some
    arithmetic subgroup $\Gamma'$ .
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 18:52:27

  • 1. Beilinson will continue (and hopefully finish) his talk on
    Monday (Feb 13), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206.
    
    2. The unpublished lemma by Kazhdan mentioned in his talk is available here:
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/Kazhdan_to_McMullen_March_10_2010.pdf
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:04:59

  • No more meetings of the seminar this quarter.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:35:59

  • The first meeting of the seminar is on April 2 (Monday).
    
    April 2 (Monday), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206
    
    Bertrand Toen. University of Montpellier.
    Introduction to derived Artin n-stacks. I.
    
    
                      Abstract
    
    The purpose of this series of lectures is to provide an introduction to
    the notion of derived Artin n-stacks. I will start from the very
    beginning (no knowledge of derived algebraic geometry is required):
    simplicial algebras, Grothendieck topologies on simplicial algebras,
    stacks, geometric stacks ...
    These notions will be illustrated by examples, such as the moduli of objects
    in a nice enough dg-category. In a second part I will present some ideas
    for a proof that derived Artin n-stacks are local for the flat topology.
    This will be used in order to show the existence of stratifications by
    gerbes.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:11:43

  • Monday (April 2), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206
    
    Bertrand Toen. University of Montpellier.
    Introduction to derived Artin n-stacks. I.
    
                      Abstract
    
    The purpose of this series of lectures is to provide an introduction to
    the notion of derived Artin n-stacks. I will start from the very
    beginning (no knowledge of derived algebraic geometry is required):
    simplicial algebras, Grothendieck topologies on simplicial algebras,
    stacks, geometric stacks ...
    These notions will be illustrated by examples, such as the moduli of
    objects in a nice enough dg-category. In a second part I will present some
    ideas for a proof that derived Artin n-stacks are local for the flat
    topology. This will be used in order to show the existence of
    stratifications by gerbes.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 19:02:03

  • Thursday (April 5), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206
    
    Bertrand Toen. University of Montpellier.
    Introduction to derived Artin n-stacks. II.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 18:43:26

  • Monday (April 9), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206
    
    Bertrand Toen. University of Montpellier.
    Introduction to derived Artin n-stacks. III.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:38:24

  • No seminar on Thursday.
    On Monday Sam Raskin will begin his series of talks.
    
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    M.Artin proved the equivalence of two definitions of algebraic stack in
    his article "Versal deformations and algebraic stacks". The article is
    available here:
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~drinfeld/Artin_on_stacks.pdf
    
    The proof is on p.184-186, which corresponds to p.20-22 of the PDF file.
    
    *****************
    Here is the title and abstract of the talk on
    Monday (April 16), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206
    
    Sam Raskin (Harvard University)
    A geometric approach to the Feigin-Frenkel theorem
    
                    Abstract
    
    We will present a new approach to the theorem of Beilinson and Drinfeld
    completely describing the derived global sections of spherical D-modules
    on the affine Grassmannian at critical level as modules over the
    corresponding affine Kac-Moody algebra. Unlike their proof, this approach
    does not rely on Feigin-Frenkel theorem relating the critical-level center
    of the affine Kac-Moody algebra attached to a semisimple Lie algebra to
    the space of opers for the Langlands dual group, and gives a new proof of
    this theorem via a construction of Beilinson-Drinfeld-Frenkel-Gaitsgory.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:48:27

  • Monday (April 16), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206
    
    Sam Raskin (Harvard University)
    A geometric approach to the Feigin-Frenkel theorem
    
                    Abstract
    
    We will present a new approach to the theorem of Beilinson and Drinfeld
    completely describing the derived global sections of spherical D-modules
    on the affine Grassmannian at critical level as modules over the
    corresponding affine Kac-Moody algebra. Unlike their proof, this approach
    does not rely on Feigin-Frenkel theorem relating the critical-level center
    of the affine Kac-Moody algebra attached to a semisimple Lie algebra to
    the space of opers for the Langlands dual group, and gives a new proof of
    this theorem via a construction of Beilinson-Drinfeld-Frenkel-Gaitsgory.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:31:30

  • Thursday (April 19), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206
    
    Sam Raskin (Harvard University)
    A geometric approach to the Feigin-Frenkel theorem. II.
    
                    Abstract
    
    We will present a new approach to the theorem of Beilinson and Drinfeld
    completely describing the derived global sections of spherical D-modules
    on the affine Grassmannian at critical level as modules over the
    corresponding affine Kac-Moody algebra. Unlike their proof, this approach
    does not rely on Feigin-Frenkel theorem relating the critical-level center
    of the affine Kac-Moody algebra attached to a semisimple Lie algebra to
    the space of opers for the Langlands dual group, and gives a new proof of
    this theorem via a construction of Beilinson-Drinfeld-Frenkel-Gaitsgory.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:06:35

  • No seminar on Monday.
    
    Next meeting:
    
    Thursday (April 26), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206
    
    Sam Raskin (Harvard University)
    A geometric approach to the Feigin-Frenkel theorem. III.
    
                    Abstract
    
    We will present a new approach to the theorem of Beilinson and Drinfeld
    completely describing the derived global sections of spherical D-modules
    on the affine Grassmannian at critical level as modules over the
    corresponding affine Kac-Moody algebra. Unlike their proof, this approach
    does not rely on Feigin-Frenkel theorem relating the critical-level center
    of the affine Kac-Moody algebra attached to a semisimple Lie algebra to
    the space of opers for the Langlands dual group, and gives a new proof of
    this theorem via a construction of Beilinson-Drinfeld-Frenkel-Gaitsgory.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:24:35

  • Thursday (April 26), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206
    
    Sam Raskin (Harvard University)
    A geometric approach to the Feigin-Frenkel theorem. III.
    
                    Abstract
    
    We will present a new approach to the theorem of Beilinson and Drinfeld
    completely describing the derived global sections of spherical D-modules
    on the affine Grassmannian at critical level as modules over the
    corresponding affine Kac-Moody algebra. Unlike their proof, this approach
    does not rely on Feigin-Frenkel theorem relating the critical-level center
    of the affine Kac-Moody algebra attached to a semisimple Lie algebra to
    the space of opers for the Langlands dual group, and gives a new proof of
    this theorem via a construction of Beilinson-Drinfeld-Frenkel-Gaitsgory.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:12:17

  • No seminar on Monday.
    
    On Thursday (May 3) Dima Arinkin will begin his series of talks on his
    recent article with Dennis Gaitsgory, see
      http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.6343
    In this VERY IMPORTANT work they give a precise formulation of the
    geometric Langlands conjecture (the so-called "Best Hope"). The previous
    formulations (by me and by others) were either incorrect or not quite
    precise, i.e., only "modulo something".
    
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    Thursday (May 3), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206
    
    Dima Arinkin (University of North Carolina)
    Singular support of coherent sheaves and the Langlands conjecture. I.
    
                      Abstract
    
    In its `categorical' version, the geometric Langlands conjecture predicts
    deep ties between quasi-coherent sheaves on the moduli stack of local
    systems and D-modules on the moduli stack of principal bundles. It is very
    natural to state the conjecture as an equivalence between the derived
    categories of these objects.
    
    However, such naive formulation turns out to be inconsistent: the two
    categories do not match. In a joint work with D.Gaitsgory, we develop a
    way to correct this issue. We study the notion of singular support for
    (ind)-coherent sheaves on a locally complete intersection. We then suggest
    that in order for the geometric Langlands conjecture to give an
    equivalence of categories, quasicoherent sheaves should be replaced with
    ind-coherent sheaves whose singular support is contained in a certain
    natural subset.
    
    In this series of talks, I have two goals. Firstly, I plan to present the
    general theory of ind-coherent sheaves and their singular support. I will
    then explain a version of the Langlands conjecture using ind-coherent
    sheaves, and show that this new version is compatible with natural
    constructions (such as the Eisenstein series), unlike the naive statement
    using quasi-coherent sheaves.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:19:48

  • On Thursday Dima Arinkin will begin his series of talks on his recent
    article with Dennis Gaitsgory, see
      http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.6343
    In this VERY IMPORTANT work they give a precise formulation of the
    geometric Langlands conjecture (the so-called "Best Hope"). The previous
    formulations (by me and by others) were either incorrect or not quite
    precise, i.e., only "modulo something".
    
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    Thursday (May 3), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206
    
    Dima Arinkin (University of North Carolina)
    Singular support of coherent sheaves and the Langlands conjecture. I.
    
                      Abstract
    
    In its `categorical' version, the geometric Langlands conjecture predicts
    deep ties between quasi-coherent sheaves on the moduli stack of local
    systems and D-modules on the moduli stack of principal bundles. It is very
    natural to state the conjecture as an equivalence between the derived
    categories of these objects.
    
    However, such naive formulation turns out to be inconsistent: the two
    categories do not match. In a joint work with D.Gaitsgory, we develop a
    way to correct this issue. We study the notion of singular support for
    (ind)-coherent sheaves on a locally complete intersection. We then suggest
    that in order for the geometric Langlands conjecture to give an
    equivalence of categories, quasicoherent sheaves should be replaced with
    ind-coherent sheaves whose singular support is contained in a certain
    natural subset.
    
    In this series of talks, I have two goals. Firstly, I plan to present the
    general theory of ind-coherent sheaves and their singular support. I will
    then explain a version of the Langlands conjecture using ind-coherent
    sheaves, and show that this new version is compatible with natural
    constructions (such as the Eisenstein series), unlike the naive statement
    using quasi-coherent sheaves.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 19:39:32

  • Monday (May 7), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206
    
    Dima Arinkin (University of North Carolina)
    Singular support of coherent sheaves and the Langlands conjecture. II.
    
                      Abstract
    
    In its `categorical' version, the geometric Langlands conjecture predicts
    deep ties between quasi-coherent sheaves on the moduli stack of local
    systems and D-modules on the moduli stack of principal bundles. It is very
    natural to state the conjecture as an equivalence between the derived
    categories of these objects.
    
    However, such naive formulation turns out to be inconsistent: the two
    categories do not match. In a joint work with D.Gaitsgory, we develop a
    way to correct this issue. We study the notion of singular support for
    (ind)-coherent sheaves on a locally complete intersection. We then suggest
    that in order for the geometric Langlands conjecture to give an
    equivalence of categories, quasicoherent sheaves should be replaced with
    ind-coherent sheaves whose singular support is contained in a certain
    natural subset.
    
    In this series of talks, I have two goals. Firstly, I plan to present the
    general theory of ind-coherent sheaves and their singular support. I will
    then explain a version of the Langlands conjecture using ind-coherent
    sheaves, and show that this new version is compatible with natural
    constructions (such as the Eisenstein series), unlike the naive statement
    using quasi-coherent sheaves.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 19:02:58

  • Dima Arinkin will continue (and probably finish) his talk on
      Thursday (May 10), 4:30 p.m,  room E 206
    
    Here is information about two workshops in the enarest future:
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    A school on Algebraic Microlocal Analysis will take place
    at NWU from May 14 to May 26, 2012, see
       http://www.math.northwestern.edu/~tsygan/conf.html
    
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    Here is an announcement of the workshop to be held at UIC this weekend:
    
    Towards a Local Proof of the Local Langlands Correspondence
    University of Chicago and University of Illinois at Chicago, May 12-13, 2012
    
    It aims to provide graduate students and young researchers with an
    overview of the recent developments in the field. There will be series of
    talks on the following subjects, emphasizing the geometric nature of the
    correspondence:
    
    Introduction to the Lubin-Tate spaces (by A. Caraiani).
    The cohomology of the Lubin-Tate tower (by M. Strauch).
    Moduli of p-divisible groups (by J. Weinstein).
    Introduction to the theory of smooth representations of p-adic groups via
    types and covers (by P. Kutzko).
    Local Langlands correspondence and zeta functions of varieties over finite
    fields (by M. Boyarchenko).
    
    For more information, please visit the webpage:
    
    http://math.uchicago.edu/~lxiao/workshop_site/
    
    
    
    
    


  • Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 19:35:03

  • No seminar until Gerard Laumon's talk on May 24 (Thursday).
    
    Let me recall that there is a workshop "Towards a Local Proof of the Local
    Langlands Correspondence" at UIC this weekend, see
     http://math.uchicago.edu/~lxiao/workshop_site/
    and a school on Algebraic Microlocal Analysis at NWU from May 14 to May
    26, see
       http://www.math.northwestern.edu/~tsygan/conf.html