School of Mathematical Sciences

The Gersten conjecture for Witt groups of symmetric bilinear forms

Date(s)
Wednesday 15th May 2024 (15:00-16:00)
Contact
Event Convenor Contact: alexander.vishik@nottingham.ac.uk
Description
Speaker's Name: Stefan Gille
Speaker's Affiliation: University of Alberta
Speaker's Research Theme(s): Pure Mathematics,
Abstract:
In the first part of the talk I will discuss the Gersten conjecture and its implications. The second part is devoted to the proof of the conjecture for local rings of varieties, which are smooth over a discrete valuation ring. This is on a joint work with Ivan Panin.

Venue: MATH, A17

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