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-3.03. 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
22/10/25	Hind	1. The Grothendieck group of rings and schemes
29/10/25	Paolo	2. The Chow group and the Chern classes
05/11/25	Wenkang	3. The Chern character isomorphism
12/11/25		4. K_1 and K_2 of a ring
19/11/25	Anna	5. The classifying space of a small category
26/11/25		6. The Quillen + and S^{-1}-constructions
03/12/25		7. The Quillen Q-construction and the "+=Q" Theorem
10/12/25		8. The Waldhausen S-construction
17/12/25		9. Properties of higher algebraic K-theory
07/01/26		10. Computation of the K-theory of finite fields
14/01/26		11. The Kummer-Vandiver conjecture / The Merkurjev-Suslin Theorem
21/01/26	David	12. Universality of algebraic K-theory
28/01/26		Proposal session for the next term