Norm Varieties and Algebraic Groups

Workshop at the Mathematics Research Institute at ETH Zurich (FIM)

December 14-16, 1998

Organizer:

Max-Albert Knus

Participants:

Eva Bayer, Jean Barge, Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène, Skip Garibaldi, Philippe Gille, Detlev Hoffman, Max-Albert Knus, Alexander Merkurjev, Manuel Ojanguren, Ivan Panin, Parimala, Markus Rost, Jean-Pierre Serre, Jean-Pierre Tignol.

Program:

Monday, December 14:

10.15-12.15 (HG G 26.5): Markus Rost
Mini-course on norm varieties I: Chain Lemma

14.00-15.00 (HG G 60): Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène
Groupes de Galois sur k(t)

15.15-16.15 (HG G 60): Detlev Hoffmann
Some remarks on the u-invariant of fields

Tuesday, December 15:

10.15-11.00 (HG G 60): Markus Rost
Mini-course on norm varieties II: A multiplicative function in 81 variables

11.15-12.00 (HG G 60): Jean-Pierre Serre
Essential dimension (d'après Z. Reichstein)

14.00-15.00 (HG G 43): Alexander Merkurjev
Cohomological invariants of algebraic groups

15.15-16.00 (HG G 43): Jean-Pierre Tignol
Classification theorems for central simple algebras with involution

16.15-17.15 (HG G 43): Ivan Panin
New results on the Grothendieck conjecture about principal homogeneous spaces
(joint work with Manuel Ojanguren)

17.30-18.30 (HG G 43): Eva Bayer-Fluckiger
Multiples of trace forms

19.30: Evening party Chez Max
Berglistr. 1, Erlenbach

Wednesday, December 16:

10.15-12.15 (HG G 26.5): Markus Rost
Mini-course on norm varieties III: Degree formulas

14.00-15.00 (RZ F 21): Jean Barge
The "naive" fundamental group of SL(2,K)
(Le groupe fondamental "naif" de SL(2,K))

15.15-16.00 (RZ F 21): Philippe Gille
K₂-cohomology of parahoric subgroups

16.15-17.00 (RZ F 21): Skip Garibaldi
Cohomological invariants of groups of type E₇

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