Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker: Keerthi Madapusi (Boston College)
Host: Dipendra Prasad
Title: A motivated introduction to Shimura varieties
Time, day and date: 4:00:00 PM - 5:00:00 PM, Wednesday, August 13
Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Abstract: The aim of this talk is to present some motivation for the theory of Shimura varieties. These objects, which have played a central role in many advances in number theory and arithmetic geometry in the past four decades, are in fact rich tapestries where geometry, arithmetic and representation theory all get woven together in a still somewhat mysterious fashion. I will first explain some fundamental problems where their use was essential and then try to give some ways of thinking about them in informal terms.