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Braids, Resolvent Degree and Hilbert’s 13th Problem

February 19 - 21, 2019

Schedule

Tuesday, February 19, 2019
9:00 - 9:50	Jesse Wolfson (University of California, Irvine (UCI)) After Abel
10:15 - 11:05	Alexander Merkurjev (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)) Essential Dimension I
11:30 - 12:20	Jesse Wolfson (University of California, Irvine (UCI)) Resolvent Degree and Classical Solutions
2:00 - 2:50	Keerthi Madapusi Pera (Boston College) Introduction to the Siegel modular variety and its ordinary locus
3:30 - 4:20	Askold Khovanskii (University of Toronto) Topological approach to 13th Hilbert problem
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
9:00 - 9:50	Alexander Merkurjev (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)) Essential Dimension II
10:15 - 11:05	Mark Kisin (Harvard University) Essential dimension and moduli of abelian varieties
11:30 - 12:20	Hélène Esnault (Freie Universität Berlin) Arithmetic subspaces of moduli spaces of rank one local systems
2:00 - 2:50	Anatoly Libgober (University of Illinois at Chicago ) Asymptotic of invariants of quasi-projective fundamental groups.
3:30 - 4:30	Lightning Session Weiyan Chen (Minnesota), Ronno Das (UChicago), Rachel Davis (Wisconsin), Federico Scavia (UBC), Abishek Shukla (UBC), Padmavathi Srinivasan (Georgia Tech), Rebecca Winarski (University of Michigan), and Lynnelle Ye (Harvard).
Thursday, February 21, 2019
9:00 - 9:50	Jesse Wolfson (University of California, Irvine (UCI)) Resolvent Degree and the Search for Lower Bounds
10:15 - 11:05	Laure Flapan (Northeastern University) Monodromy of Kodaira fibrations and moduli of abelian varieties
11:30 - 12:20	Alexander Suciu (Northeastern University) Braids, hyperplane arrangements, and Milnor fibrations
2:00 - 2:50	Alexander Duncan (University of South Carolina) Finite Groups of Low Essential Dimension
3:30 - 4:20	Daniel Litt (Institute for Advanced Study) Arithmetic and the representation theory of fundamental groups