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Simon Cooper: Introduction to Chow Rings

Time: Fri 2022-03-25 13.15 - 14.15

Location: Kräftriket, House 5, Room 32

Participating: Simon Cooper (Stockholms Universitet)

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Abstract

This talk is a gentle introduction to Chow rings, which play a central role in the intersection theory of algebraic varieties. This is a somewhat mysterious object which contains a lot of information about the variety. I will discuss some difficulties in computing this invariant and talk a bit about how it relates to other invariants, e.g., cohomology theories.