Dear all,

I would like to announce the following Mathematics and String theory seminar at IPMU.

Speaker: Ambrus Pal	(Imperial College London)
Date: Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Kavli IPMU, Seminar Room A

Title: Around de Jong's conjecture

Abstract: One of the central objects of study in arithmetic geometry is the étale fundamental group of algebraic varieties, with a particular emphasis on the the fundamental group of curves. Over finite fields a very important property of these groups were discovered by Johan de Jong, now known as de Jong's conjecture. I will talk about a new proof of de Jong's conjecture in the rank two case, and a closely related analogue of Serre's conjecture for function fields.


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Todor Eliseev Milanov
Associate Professor 
Kavli IPMU,  Japan

todor.milanov at ipmu.jp