Date & Time: Wednesday, February 24, 2016, 11:30-12:30.
Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Speaker: C.S. Dalawat,
Harish-Chandra Research Institute
Title: Tame ramification and group cohomology
Abstract: We describe all tamely ramified extensions of a local field with finite residue field. All necessary background will be recalled, and a number of illustrative examples will be worked out. The talk should be accessible to anyone with a little knowledge of groups and fields.