Penn Algebra and Galois theory seminar videos 2009

Penn Algebra and Galois theory seminars
Monday	Wednesday	Friday
Sept. 14 Algebra Seminar Speaker: Jeff Achter, Colorado State University and Penn Title: Reduction of simple abelian varieties Video of the talk Downloadable version of the video - to be posted	Sept. 16 Galois Seminar Speaker: Rachel Pries, Colorado State University and Penn Title: Alternating group covers of the affine line and Abhyankar's Inertia Conjecture Video of the talk Downloadable version of the video	Sept. 18 No Seminar
Sept. 21 Algebra Seminar Speaker: Rachel Pries, Colorado State University and Penn Title: Boundary of the p-rank strata of the moduli space of hyperelliptic curves Video of the talk Downloadable version of the video - to be posted	Sept. 23 Galois Seminar Speaker: Hilaf Hasson, University of Pennsylvania Title: The fundamental group of affine curves in positive characteristic No video is available for this talk.	Sept. 25 No seminar
Sept. 28 Algebra Seminar Speaker: Shin-Yao Jow, University of Pennsylvania Title: Okounkov body: a new tool for studying volumes of big divisors Video of the talk Downloadable version of the video - to be posted	Sept. 30 Galois Seminar Speaker: Lourdes Juan, Texas Tech and Penn Title: Differential Galois extensions with specified Galois group Video of the talk Downloadable version of the video	Oct. 2 Algebra Seminar Speaker: Robert Guralnick, University of Southern California Title: Presentations and Cohomology No video is available for this talk.
Oct. 5 No seminar	Oct. 7 Galois Seminar Speaker: Frans Oort, Utrecht University Title: Some questions in arithmetic geometry Video of the talk Downloadable version of the video	Oct. 9 Algebra Seminar Speaker: Frans Oort, Utrecht University Title: Some questions in arithmetic geometry (continued) Video of the talk Downloadable version of the video
Oct. 12 Algebra Seminar Speaker: Jeff Achter, Colorado State University Title: Generic curves of given p-rank Video of the talk Downloadable version of the video - be posted	Oct. 14 Galois Seminar: No seminar	Oct. 16 No Seminar
Oct. 19 Algebra Seminar: No seminar, fall break	Oct. 21 Galois Seminar: No seminar	Oct. 23 No Seminar
Oct. 26 Algebra Seminar Speaker: Daniel Murfet, University of Bonn Title: Duality in singularity categories and the Kapustin-Li formula No Video of the talk is available	Oct. 28 Galois Seminar Speaker: Adam Topaz, University of Pennsylvania Title: Quotients of Galois groups and Galois Cohomology No Video of the talk is available; see the continuatio on Nov. 4.	Oct. 30 No Seminar
Nov. 2 Algebra Seminar Speaker: David Saltman, Cener for Communication Research, IDA and Univ. Texas at Austin Title: Ramification in Bad Characteristics Video of the talk Downloadable version of the video - to be posted	Nov. 4 Galois Seminar Speaker: Adam Topaz, University of Pennsylvania Title: Quotients of Galois groups and Galois Cohomology (continued) Video of the talk Downloadable version of the video	Nov. 6 No Seminar
Nov. 9 Algebra Seminar Speaker: Lenny Taelman, University of Leiden and Penn Title: The Carlitz module and units for function fields No video is available of this talk	Nov. 11 Galois Seminar Speaker: Lourdes Juan, Texas Tech and Penn Title: Differential Galois extensions with specified Galois group (cont'd) Video of the talk Downloadable version of the video	Nov. 13 No Seminar
Nov. 16 Algebra Seminar Speaker: Ted Chinburg, Penn Title: Determining number fields and their invariants from zeta functions Video to be posted	Nov. 18 Galois Seminar Speaker: Lenny Taelman, Univ. of Leiden and Penn Title: Tannakian aspects of motives and t-motives Video to be posted	Nov. 20 No Seminar

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Penn Algebra and Galois theory seminars