Torsors: theory and applications
10 - 14 January
2011
A conference organized by Victor Batyrev and Alexei Skorobogatov
and funded by EPSRC and LMS.
International Centre for
Mathematical Sciences in
The aim of the conference is to
bring together those who work with torsors from
different perspectives
(geometric
invariant theory, algebraic geometry, representation theory, non-abelian cohomology)
and those who apply torsors in
arithmetic geometry.
Mini-courses: "Cox rings and GIT" by Jürgen
Hausen, and "Representation theory and torsors" by Vera Serganova.
Participants
include:
Ivan Arzhantsev,
Mikhail Borovoi, Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène,
Cyril Demarche, Ulrich Derenthal,
Matthieu Florence, Philippe Gille, David Harari, Yonatan
Harpaz, Antonio Laface, Ambrus Pal,
Tomer Shlank, Jakob Stix, Michael Stoll, Damiano Testa, Jenia Tevelev,
Bianca Viray, Felipe Voloch
Links to some related
surveys and an unpublished note by A. Grothendieck.
A volume of Proceedings of this workshop, under a tentative title "Lectures on torsors and their applications",
is being planned, possibly to be published in the LMS Lecture Notes Series. It will include lecture notes from
two mini-courses. All contributions will be duly refereed. A contribution can be an original research paper,
or a survey giving an account of the present state of knowledge of some aspect of the workshop's subject.
The
deadline for submission is expected to be soon after the conference.