Schedule for: 23w5146 - Motives and Invariants: Theory and Applications to Algebraic Groups and their Torsors
Beginning on Sunday, October 8 and ending Friday October 13, 2023
All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).
| Sunday, October 8 |
| 16:00 - 17:30 |
Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 20:00 - 22:00 |
Informal gathering ↓ Informal Meet and Greet at BIRS Lounge (PDC 2nd floor) (Other (See Description)) |
| Monday, October 9 |
| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 08:45 - 09:00 |
Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff ↓ A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions. (TCPL 201) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Alexander Merkurjev: The Massey Vanishing Conjecture (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:20 |
Federico Scavia: Massey products in Galois cohomology (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Guided Tour of The Banff Centre ↓ Meet at Vistas Dining Room for a guided tour of The Banff Centre campus. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 14:00 - 14:20 |
Group Photo ↓ Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo! (TCPL Foyer) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Adam Chapman: Minimal forms for conics (TCPL 201) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 16:20 |
Alexander Vishik: Isotropic and numerical equivalence for Chow groups and Morava K-Theories (TCPL 201) |
| 16:30 - 17:20 |
Olivier Haution: The concentration Theorem in motivic homotopy theory (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Tuesday, October 10 |
| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Diego Izquierdo: Relating the Diophantine properties of fields to their algebraic properties: from old questions to recent developments (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:20 |
Giancarlo Lucchini Arteche: Transfer principles for Galois cohomology and Serre's Conjecture II (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:00 - 13:50 |
Uriya First: Torsors that specialize to all torsors over d-dimensional schemes (TCPL 201) |
| 14:00 - 14:50 |
Danny Ofek: Essential dimension of Brauer and Witt classes via valuation theory (TCPL 201) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Philippe Gille: Unipotent subgroups of stabilizers (TCPL 201) |
| 16:05 - 16:35 |
Thomas Unger: Pfister's local-global principle for Azumaya algebras with involution (TCPL 201) |
| 16:40 - 17:30 |
Srimathy Srinivasan: Azumaya algebras with involution and classical semisimple group schemes (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Wednesday, October 11 |
| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Nikita Karpenko: Applications of Algebraic Cycles to Quadratic Forms (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:20 |
Charles De Clercq: Tate traces of Chow motives (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:30 - 17:30 |
Free Afternoon (Banff National Park) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Thursday, October 12 |
| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène: Unramified third étale cohomology with torsion coefficients: Results and questions (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:20 |
Raman Parimala: A Hasse principle for projective homogeneous spaces over semiglobal fields (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:00 - 13:50 |
Baptiste Calmes: Hermitian K-Theory and motives (TCPL 201) |
| 14:00 - 14:50 |
Maksim Zhykhovich: The J-Invariant of algebras with orthogonal involutions (TCPL 201) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Nikita Geldhauser: The J-Invariant of linear algebraic groups of outer type (TCPL 201) |
| 16:05 - 16:35 |
Zinovy Reichstein: Hilbert's 13th Problem in prime characteristic (TCPL 201) |
| 16:40 - 17:10 |
Diksha Mukhija: Excellent field extensions (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Friday, October 13 |
| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 08:45 - 09:15 |
Arturo Pianzola: Fiberwise criteria for forms of algebras (TCPL 201) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Cameron Ruether: Quadratic pairs over schemes and the canonical quadratic pair on Clifford algebras (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Checkout by 11AM ↓ 5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (TCPL ) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11AM. (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 11:10 - 12:00 |
Mathieu Florence: Lifting flags of Galois representations and the norm residue isomorphism theorem (TCPL 201) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room) |
