About the Speaker Linquan Ma is an associate professor of mathematics at Purdue University. He obtained his Ph.D from University of Michigan in 2014 under the direction of Melvin Hochster. He has been awarded a Sloan research fellowship in 2020. His main research is on commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. Recently, he has been focused on the development of a mixed characteristic singular...
DiscriptionThe lectures will be an introdution to different aspects of singularities of algebraic varieties motivated by open problems such as the monodromy conjecture, the Nash problem, the Zariski multiplicity conjecture, the Arc-Floer conjecture.Prerequisite:algebraic geometry (varieties, schemes, sheaves, cohomology)Target Audience:Graduate students and advanced undergraduate studentsTeachi...