Speaker:
Chris Davis
Institution:
UCI
Time:
Monday, May 7, 2018 - 4:00pm to 4:50pm
Location:
RH 340N
This is the first of two talks about perfectoid algebras, a concept which was developed in the last 10 years by Peter Scholze. The talks are intended to be introductory. Some familiarity with the p-adic numbers would be helpful but shouldn't be necessary.