The beauty of the beast: the Hilbert scheme of infinite affine space

by Maria Yakerson (ETH Zurich)

Wednesday 3 Nov 2021, 15:15 → 16:15 Europe/Stockholm

Oskar Klein Auditorium (FR4) (AlbaNova Main Building)

We will investigate interaction between algebraic geometry and homotopy theory by considering an example of a particularly interesting algebraic variety, which has all possible singularities, and yet turns out to have a surprisingly simple homotopy type. Based on joint work with Marc Hoyois, Joachim Jelisiejew, Denis Nardin and Burt Totaro.