The goal of this seminar is to understand the seminal work of Calmés, Dotto, Harpaz, Hebestreit, Land, Moi, Nardin, Nikolaus, Steimle on Hermitian -theory.

References:

1. Paper 1
2. Paper 2
3. Paper 3
4. Markus’ course notes

Schedule

• (Sept 23) Hermite and Poincaré (Kaif Hilman) (Slides) (Notes)
• (Sept 30) Examplefest 1 (Lucy Yang) (Notes)
• (Oct 7) L_0 and GW_0 (Viktor Burghardt) (Notes)
• (Oct 14) Examplefest 2 (Ben Antieau) (Notes)
• (Oct 21) PV sequences (Elden Elmanto) (Notes)
• (Oct 28) Hermitian Q, Additivity, GW (Jay Shah) (Notes)
• (Nov 4) L-theory and the fundamental square (Noah Riggenbach) (Notes)
• (Nov 11) Surgery and L-theory of fields (Natalia Pacheco-Tallaj)
• (Nov 18) More Surgery (Lucy Yang)
• (Dec 2) L-theory of Z (Ishan Levy)
• (Dec 9) Quadratic-symmetric duality (Jeremy Hahn)
• (Bonus) Quadratic trace methods (Jay Shah)