Conference on Torsors, Nonassociative Algebras and Cohomological Invariants

June 10 - 14, 2013, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Schedule

Monday, June 10th, 2013
08:45 to 09:15	Onsite Registration
09:15 to 09:30	Welcome and Introduction
09:30 to 10:30	A conjecture of Grothendieck and Serre on principal bundles Roman Fedorov, Kansas State University
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	Algebraic groups related to Hodge theory Patrick Brosnan, University of Maryland
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 15:00	On the conjecture of Borel and Tits for abstract homomorphisms of algebraic groups Igor Rapinchuk, Yale University
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30	The local-global principle for embeddings of maximal tori into reductive groups Ting-Yu Lee, The Fields Institute
16:45 to 17:15	Degree 3 Cohomological Invariants of Split Quasi-Simple Groups Hernando Bermudez, The Fields Institute and Emory University
17:15 to 18:15	Reception

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
09:30 to 10:30	A conjecture of Grothendieck and Serre and affine Grassmannians Roman Fedorov, Kansas State University
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	The genus of a division algebra and ramification Andrei Rapinchuk, University of Virginia
14:00 to 15:00	Permutation modules and motives Stefan Gille, University of Alberta
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30	On the congruence kernel of isotropic groups over rings Anastasia Stavrova, The Fields Institute
16:45	The Multinorm Principle Timothy Pollio, University of Virginia

Wednesday, June 12th, 2013
09:30 to 10:30	Cyclic algebras over the projective plane David Saltman, Princeton University
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	On cohomological invariants of semisimple groups Alexander Merkurjev, University of California, Los Angeles
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 15:00	Symbol length over C_r fields Eli Matzri, University of Virginia
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30	Topological Azumaya algebras Benjamin Antieau, University of California, Los Angeles
16:45	Mirabolic Convolution Algebras Daniele Rosso, University of Chicago

Thursday, June 13th, 2013
09:30 to 10:30	Equivariant Birational Aspects of Algebraic Tori Nicole Lemire, Western University
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	Arithmetic in the Brauer group of the function field of a p-adic curve Eric Brussel, California State Polytechnic University
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 15:00	Noncrossed products over Henselian fields and a Grunwald-Wang problem Danny Neftin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 16:10	Reducing the structural group by using stabilizers in general position Mark MacDonald, Lancaster University
16:10	Some results on affine Mirkovic-Vilonen theory Dinakar Muthiah, Brown University

Friday, June 14th, 2013
09:30 to 10:30	Tensors of bounded ranks are defined in bounded degree Jochen Kuttler, University of Alberta
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00	Commutators in Algebraic Groups Nikolai Vavilov, St. Petersburg State University

Organizing Committee

Vladimir Chernousov - University of Alberta

Alexander Merkurjev - University of California, Los Angeles

Kirill Zainoulline - University of Ottawa

Scheduled as part of

Thematic Program on Torsors, Nonassociative Algebras and Cohomological Invariants

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