Ph.D. Seminar WS 2025/26: Algebraic K-theory

Welcome to the webpage of the Ph.D. Seminar of the ESAGA group for the winter semester 2025/26 on algebraic K-theory.

The seminar will take place every Wednesday starting from October 15th in the lecture room WSC-S-U-3.01. The talks will start at 2.15 pm and last about 90 minutes.

You can find an updated version of the program here.

Let me know if you would like to volunteer for any of the talks!

 

Date	Speaker	Talk	Notes
15/10/25	Linda	0. Introduction	Talk 0
22/10/25	Hind	1. The Grothendieck group of rings and schemes	Talk 1
29/10/25	Paolo	2. The Chow group and the Chern classes	Talk 2
05/11/25	Wenkang	3. The Chern character isomorphism	Talk 3
12/11/25	Valerio	4. K_1 and K_2 of a ring	Talk 4
19/11/25	Anna	5. The classifying space of a small category	Talk 5
26/11/25	Riccardo	6. The Quillen + and S^{-1}-constructions	Talk 6
03/12/25	Louisa	7. The Quillen Q-construction and the "+=Q" Theorem	Talk 7
10/12/25
17/12/25	Chirantan	8. The Waldhausen S-construction	Talk 8
07/01/26	Thiago	9. Computation of the K-theory of finite fields	Talk 9
14/01/26	Veronica	10. Properties of higher algebraic K-theory	Talk 10
21/01/26	Saverio	11. K-theory and Langlands program	Talk 11
28/01/26	David	12. Universality of algebraic K-theory	Talk 12
04/02/26		Proposal session for the next term