Date and Time: 25 August 2020, 5:30 pm IST / 12:00GMT/ 08:00am EDT
(joining time : 5:15 pm IST - 5:30 pm IST)
Google Meet link:
https://meet.google.com/wxq-droj-bii
Speaker: Vivek Mukundan, IIT Delhi
Title: Reduction to characteristic $p$ - Part 1
Abstract: This is an expository talk introducing the methods of reducing
to characteristic $p$. The main tools and general notions necessary to
reduce a problem to characteristic $p$ will be discussed in this talk. It
is based on chapter 2 of the excellent resource "Tight Closures in
Characterisitic zero" by Hochster and Huneke. We will be restricting
ourselves to the case of affine algebras since it is more accessible.