Activities around Spencer Bloch's visit as Stieltjes professor 2010


All abstracts are here.


Where Spencer Bloch gives two talks on a day they are independent of each other.


12th February: University of Amsterdam

Jointly with GQT

The talks will take place in room A1.10 in the FNWI building, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam. Note that this is a short walk away from the new railway station Amsterdam Science Park.

Time Title Lecturer
10:50-11:15 Coffee and tea
11:15-12:15 Introduction to iterated integrals and multiple zeta-numbers Spencer Bloch (University of Chicago)
12:15-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 The foliated Cheeger-Gromov invariant Moulay Benameur (Metz)
15:00-15:25 Coffee and tea
15:25-15:30 Message from the board of GQT
15:30-16:30 Local forms in Poisson geometry Marius Crainic (Utrecht)
16:30-? Drinks in the department, dinner in a restaurant


24th February: VU University Amsterdam (Stieltjes day)

Sponsored by NWO-cluster DIAMANT

The talks will take place in room 04A05 of the main building of the university (building 1 on this map).

Time Title Lecturer
13:15-14:15 Weil-étale cohomology and values of zeta-functions Matthias Flach (Caltech)
14:15-14:45 Coffee and tea
14:45-15:45 q-series, modular forms, and the Bloch group Don Zagier (Collège de France and MPIM-Bonn)
16:00-17:00 An algebraic geometer looks at renormalization in physics (colloquium talk) Spencer Bloch (University of Chicago)
17:00-18:00 Drinks


26th February: VU University Amsterdam

Sponsored by NWO-cluster DIAMANT

The talks will take place in room A301 of the building for Medical Sciences (building 6 on this map).

Time Title Lecturer
11:00-12:00 Some algebraic geometry associated to graphs and configurations Spencer Bloch (University of Chicago)
12:00-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:15 Anisotropic groups and integral closures Hendrik Lenstra (Leiden University)
14:30-15:30 Brauer-Manin obstruction and integral points (slides) Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène (Orsay)
15:30-16:00 Coffee and tea
16:00-17:00 Introduction to mixed Tate motives Spencer Bloch (University of Chicago)


12th March: University of Amsterdam

Sponsored by NWO-cluster DIAMANT

The talks will take place in room A1.04 in the FNWI building, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam. Note that this is a short walk away from the new railway station Amsterdam Science Park.

Time Title Lecturer
10:30-11:00 Coffee and tea
11:00-12:00 The algebraic geometry of graphs and configurations II; Hodge structures Spencer Bloch (University of Chicago)
12:00-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:15 Valuations of p-adic L-functions and multiplicative Euler characteristics in étale cohomology Rob de Jeu (VU)
14:30-15:30 Connectivity properties of decomposability loci Eduard Looijenga (Utrecht)
15:30-16:00 Coffee and tea
16:00-17:00 Cutkowsky rules and Monodromy of quadrics Spencer Bloch (University of Chicago)