Special Colloquium
Paul Balmer
ETH
Triangular geometry and applications
Abstract: We shall start with the concept of triangulated category, reviewing examples
from Algebraic Geometry, Homotopy Theory, Modular Representation Theory, Motivic
Theory and more. We will then introduce the basic ideas of how to do "geometry
of triangulated categories". Finally, we will see how these techniques can be
useful in some of the above examples, especially in the theory of Witt groups
(K-theory of quadratic forms).
Friday February 3, 2006 at 3:00 PM in SEO 636