This was an online seminar on the subject of rings of differential operators and their applications that happened during the summers of 2020 and 2021. Our goal was to bring together students and researchers with an interest in this topic, but that may approach it from very different perspectives. In particular, we hoped for our schedule to accommodate a good balance between the "classical" setting (characteristic zero, smooth) and singular or characteristic-p settings.
We asked our speakers to direct their talks to the level of graduate students with basic knowledge of differential operators and the Weyl algebra. If you would like to learn the basics to attend this seminar, here are some useful resources:
S.C. Coutinho, A primer of algebraic D-modules.
J.E. Björk, Rings of differential operators.
EGA IV, Ch. 16.
J. Jeffries' notes.
D. Miličić's notes.
Jack Jeffries (UNL, jack.jeffries@unl.edu)
Luis Núñez-Betancourt (CIMAT, luisnub@cimat.mx)
Eamon Quinlan-Gallego (University of Michigan, equinlan@umich.edu)