2021/22

Organisers: Samuel Lewis and Simone Castellan

23rd August 2022

Johannes Schmitt (Kaiserslautern)

Symplectic resolutions and symplectic reflection algebras

Ahead of Johannes Schmitt: Towards the classification of symplectic linear quotient singularities admitting a symplectic resolution

18th May 2022

Franco Rota

Normal forms of (commutative) functions

Ahead of Michael Wemyss: Local normal forms of noncommutative functions

4th May 2022

Rebecca Bellovin

Modular forms and Galois representations

Ahead of Jaclyn Lang: A modular construction of unramified p-extensions of Q(N¹ᐟᵖ)

27th April 2022

James Rowe

Motivating tt-geometry

Ahead of Charalampos Verasdanis: Stratification of tensor triangulated categories

20th April 2022

Pavel Safronov (Edinburgh)

Introduction to noncommutative algebraic geometry

Ahead of Pavel Safronov: Euler structures and noncommutative volume forms

30th March 2022

GAPS variety hour III

Short talks by:

23rd March 2022

Alex Bartel

Some arithmetic of elliptic curves

Ahead of Barinder Banwait: Explicit isogenies of prime degree over number fields

16th March 2022

Lucas Buzaglo (Edinburgh)

Loop algebras and their central extensions

Ahead of Susan Sierra: Ideals in enveloping algebras of loop and affine Lie algebras

9th March 2022

Charalampos Verasdanis

Classification of thick subcategories of triangulated categories

Ahead of Sira Gratz: Thick subcategories and lattices

2nd March 2022

Adam Morgan

Elliptic curves, congruent number problem, and the parity conjecture

Ahead of Holly Green: Parity of ranks of elliptic curves

23rd February 2022

David Murphy

Grassmannian cluster algebras and the twist automorphism

Ahead of Matthew Pressland: Grassmannian twists categorified

16th February 2022

Cameron Wilson

Asymptotic notation, counting primes, and 100% Goldbach

Ahead of Efthymios Sofos: Schinzel's hypothesis and applications to rational points

9th February 2022

Ross Paterson

Rational points and Lie algebras

Ahead of Jef Laga: Arithmetic statistics via graded Lie algebras

2nd February 2022

Robin Ammon

The absolute Galois group of Q, p-adic Galois representations, and modular forms

Ahead of Rebecca Bellovin: p-adic variation of Galois representations and modular forms 

26th January 2022

David Murphy

An introduction to friezes and cluster algebras

Ahead of Ana Garcia Elsener: Friezes from surfaces 

19th January 2022

Samuel Lewis and Simone Castellan

Quiver moduli spaces and noncommutative Poisson structures

Ahead of Maxime Fairon: Noncommutative Poisson geometry of Boalch's multiplicative quiver varieties 

15th December 2021

GAPS variety hour II

Short talks by:

8th December 2021

Rhys Davies

Rational Cherednik algebras with examples for the symmetric groups

Ahead of Niall Hird: The centre of the restricted rational Cherednik algebra 

1st December 2021

Robin Ammon

Arithmetic statistics, number fields and Galois extensions, and elliptic curves

Ahead of Ross Paterson: Average ranks of elliptic curves after p-extension 

24th November 2021

Ross Paterson

Arithmetic statistics, class groups, and negative Pell

Ahead of Carlo Pagano: Statistics of integral points on conics and related problems 

17th November 2021

Simone Castellan

Weyl algebras and the Harish-Chandra module

Ahead of Toby Stafford: Invariant holonomic systems for symmetric spaces 

10th November 2021

Adam Morgan

Sums of two squares, conics, and coordinates of points on elliptic curves

Ahead of Simon Leo Rydin Myerson: Conic fibrations over elliptic curves and the elliptic sieve 

3rd November 2021

GAPS variety hour I

Short talks by:

27th October 2021

Samuel Lewis

The McKay correspondence

Ahead of Alastair Craw: Moduli spaces - old and new 

20th October 2021

Ross Paterson

(Hyper)elliptic curvers, p-adic numbers, and the Hasse principle

Ahead of Adam Morgan: The 2-parity conjecture for Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves 

13th October 2021

Vitalijs Brejevs

Monoidal categories and Hopf algebras

Ahead of Andrew Baker: Numerical polynomials, Kummer congruences and Massey products 

6th October 2021

Samuel Lewis

Weighted projective space and quotient singularities

Ahead of Franco Rota: Explicit exceptional collections for Johnson-Kollar stacks 

29th September 2021

Simone Castellan

Lie algebras and (Poisson) vertex algebras

Ahead of Daniele Valeri: W-algebras and Lax type operators