Learning Seminars
I like organizing and participating in reading seminars that serve to create community for graduate students with a shared goal of studying a particular topic. The format is typically for attendants take turns preparing and presenting a portion of a paper or textbook that the group wants to study together. Last year I participated in and organized a couple of these seminars at Rutgers University and at the University of Pennsylvania. The topics and references we used in each of these is listed below.
- Algebraic Number Theory following Neukirch (Rutgers)
- Algebra and Geometry Learning Seminar (Rutgers)
- Fall 2022 topic: Brauer groups following sections from a variety of textbooks including Gille and Szamuely, Pierce, and Demeyer and Ingraham (Co-Organizer)
- Spring 2022 topic: motivic cohomology and homotopy theory following these notes by Aravind Asok
- Fall 2021 topic: K-theory following Quillen's paper
- Field patching and admissibility seminar (UPenn) which followed David Harbater and Julia Hartmann's notes from the Arizona Winter School in addition to some of their papers on the topic.(Organizer)
- Azumaya Seminar on the Brauer-Azumaya and Brauer-Grothendieck group (UPenn) which followed sections in chapters 2-4 in Alexei Skorobogatov and Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène's book.