Drinfeld Module Seminar (Fall 2017)

The seminar meets on Friday from 4:10pm to 5:30pm in 1866 East Hall. All are welcome to attend!

Lectures
1	Sep 9	Andrew	Overview	pdf
2	Sep 15	Alex	The Carlitz module, part 1	pdf
3	Sep 22	Shubhodip	The Carlitz module, part 2	pdf
4	Sep 29	Ashwath	Elliptic modules	pdf
5	Oct 6	Andy	Formal modules	pdf
6	Oct 13	Emanuel	Deformation theory of formal modules	pdf
7	Oct 20	Haoyang	Moduli of elliptic modules	pdf
8	Oct 27	Matt	Uniformization of moduli spaces	pdf
9	Nov 3	Bhargav	Compactification of moduli spaces	pdf
10	Nov 10	Charlotte	Connections to automorphic forms
	Nov 17		[No talk]
11	Dec 1	Kartik	Construction of Galois representations
12	Dec 8		TBD

Additionally, we have one special lecture:

• On Monday, September 18, Mihran Papikian will give an overview of the theory of Drinfeld modules. The seminar meets 3:10–4:20pm in 4088 East Hall (the usual GLNT room). Notes.

Primary references:

• Drinfeld, Elliptic modules (better version)
• Goss, Basic structures of function field arithmetic