Study group on Galois cohomology
Where and when
Talks will be 3-4pm Fridays in B3.01 unless otherwise stated.
References
- Neukirch--Schmidt--Wingberg, Cohomology of number fields
- Tate, Galois cohomology (link)
- Milne, Arithmetic Duality Theorems (link) (good for #5 and #6)
- Garrett's notes (for #3)
- Bloch and Kato, L-functions and Tamagawa numbers of motives (for #7)
- Coates and Sujatha, Galois cohomology of elliptic curves
Programme
Thanks to Florian for transcribing notes of all the talks so far.
# | Date | Speaker | Topic |
1 | Fri 17/1 | Chris B. | Definition and first properties of group cohomology — notes |
2 | Fri 24/1 | Matthew | Further properties of group cohomology; relations to topological cohomology — notes |
3 | Fri 31/1 | Florian | Cohomology of arithmetic groups and the Eichler-Shimura isomorphism — notes |
4 | Fri 7/2 | Angelos | Basics of Galois cohomology; Hilbert 90, etc — notes |
5 | Fri 14/2 | Pedro | Cohomology of local fields and Tate duality — notes |
5½ | Tue 18/2 | Chris W. | Interlude: Cohomology and extensions — notes |
6 | Fri 21/2 | Marc | Cohomology of global fields and Poitou-Tate duality — notes |
7 | Fri 28/2 | Chris W. | Some p-adic Hodge theory — notes |
8 | Fri 7/3 | Celine | Selmer groups and Kummer theory for elliptic curves — Celine's notes — Florian's notes |
9 | TBA |
David | The Coates-Wiles theorem |