7th-11th September 2026
University of Nottingham, UK
Description
The summer school Motivic Midlands is aimed at early career researchers working in motives, neighbouring areas, or those who simply want to learn more about the subject.
Motives are fundamental objects associated to algebro-geometric spaces: they encode deep topological, (co)homological, and arithmetic information about varieties. They are at the core of lots of important conjectures and theories in complex geometry, arithmetic geometry, number theory, theoretical physics, algebraic topology,...
This workshop aims to introduce motives to a broad audience, focusing on four themes: introduction to motives; motives in algebraic geometry and moduli theory; applications of motives to number theory and periods; and motivic tensor-triangular geometry.
Speakers
Francis Brown (Oxford)
Martin Gallauer (Warwick)
Victoria Hoskins (Duisburg-Essen)
Alexander Vishik (Nottingham)
Registration
-Coming Soon-
We will be looking for a selection of research talks from participants: please indicate on the registration form if you would like to contribute one!
We have limited financial support available for participants: please indicate if you wish to apply for this in the registration form.
Local Information
The University of Nottingham is easily accessible via tram from the city centre (stop: University of Nottingham in the direction of Toton Lane), from which the department is a few minutes walk away.
Organisers
Jean Paul Schemeil (Nottingham) | jeanpaul (dot) schemeil (at) nottingham.ac.uk
Fraser Sparks (Nottingham) | fraser (dot) sparks (at) nottingham.ac.uk
We Kindly Thank Our Sponsors
Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research
UKRI/EPSRC Additional Funding Programme for Mathematical Sciences
Foundation Compositio Mathematica
K-Theory Foundation