Motivic stuff

Postdoc position in Milano

Andreas Holmstrom — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:01:22 +0000

From an email by Luca Barbieri-Viale:

There are post-doc positions “assegno di ricerca” here in Milano for 2 years (up to 4 after renewal). The best research projects among several subjects will be selected. One subject is “Arithmetic geometry, motives and homotopy theory of schemes”. Description: “Comparison theorems for cohomology theories. Motivic cohomology and its applications in arithmetic geometry. Galois representations, modular forms and families. Applications to the study of varieties and motives over local and global fields.”

Deadline for application February 15, 2012.
See this web page for more info and how to apply.

Polymath in a TED talk

Andreas Holmstrom — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:01:19 +0000

Michael Nielsen’s TED talk Open Science Now! from earlier this year was recently posted on the TED site. For people already interested in these things it doesn’t contain any surprises, but the ideas are certainly worth spreading, and the Polymath project features as the opening story

Lecture notes on perfectoid spaces

Andreas Holmstrom — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:34:44 +0000

Today Peter Scholze finished his IHES lecture series on perfectoid spaces and the weight-monodromy conjecture. The complete lecture notes are now available on his webpage, and video will probably become available here.

AMS meeting and video lectures on SAGE and elliptic curves

Andreas Holmstrom — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:18:49 +0000

Trying to move (temporarily) from the abstract world of stable motivic homotopy theory, I have signed up for the SAGE course at the upcoming AMS meeting in Boston. As preparation for this, I found some video lectures from MSRI (thanks to the numbertheory.org rss feed), giving an introduction to computing with elliptic curves in SAGE.

Among many other things, the AMS meeting also offers a healthy dose of homotopy theory, some lectures of Harpaz and/or Schlank on their remarkable paper on etale homotopy theory and rational points on varieties, and a special session with the amazing title Generalized Cohomology Theories in Engineering Practice. Maybe there will also be a MathOverflow meetup?

PhD position in motivic homotopy theory

Andreas Holmstrom — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:18:10 +0000

An excellent opportunity to work as a PhD student with Vladimir Guletskii in Liverpool, on motivic homotopy theory and motivic zeta functions. Some more details on the precise idea of the project can be found here, and some related preprints by Guletskii are here. The application deadline has now been changed to 31st May 2012 – see the comment of Vladimir below!

Paris events: Wall-crossing, model theory, multiple zeta values, and more

Andreas Holmstrom — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:41:58 +0000

Some Paris events in the next few months:

Mondays from Nov 5: Lectures on multiple zeta values by Don Zagier (Collège de France)
Nov 8-10: Workshop on the Mumford-Tate conjecture (Institut Henre Poincaré)
Nov 10 – 12: Lectures on wall-crossing by Kontsevich and Neitzke (IHES)
Nov 30 – Dec 2: Categories and physics (Paris 7)
Dec 5 – 9: Model theory of difference fields and applications (Orsay)

There are also various activities related to the IHP trimester on conformal field theory.

Next year: June 25 – 29, 2012: From algebraic geometry to automorphic forms (in honour of Laumon)

Arithmetic, motives, and moduli spaces in Paris

Andreas Holmstrom — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:30:23 +0000

Upcoming conference: 9-13 January 2012: Arithmetic, motives and moduli spaces. At IHP, in central Paris.

Book draft by Jardine on local homotopy theory

Andreas Holmstrom — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:34:18 +0000

Rick Jardine recently posted a draft on his webpage for a book on local homotopy theory. He writes: “This a partial, rough manuscript for a monograph, which is tentatively to be published by Springer-Verlag. The book is meant to be a basic account of the homotopy theories of simplicial sheaves and presheaves, and the stable homotopy theory of presheaves of spectra. Selected applications are included.” The pdf file is available here.

Temporary lecturer positions in number theory, Nottingham

Andreas Holmstrom — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:09:11 +0000

Two positions open in Nottingham, 10-month contracts starting in Sep 2011, good pay. “Preference may be given to candidates whose research complements that of the School’s number theory group.” For more details, please get in touch with Ivan Fesenko.

Postdoc opportunities in Milano, deadline early July

Andreas Holmstrom — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:01:04 +0000

The University of Milan has a general call for postdoc applications here. Within mathematics, they welcome applications within the following general subject areas (see pages 9 and 10 of the huge pdf file):

Arithmetic on local and global fields, a topic suggested by Fabrizio Andreatta.
Geometry and moduli of algebraic varieties (Bert van Geemen)
Analysis and geometry on CR and Riemannian manifolds (Marco Maria Peloso)
Categorical algebra for applications in (non-abelian) homological and universal algebra (Sandra Mantovani)

Positions can be held for up to 4 years. The deadline is 6 July 2011, and applications must be submitted by post.