Author Archives: Persiflage

Levi L. Conant Prize

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Persiflage

Nominations for the 2020 Levi L. Conant Prize are now open! To quote directly from the relevant blurb, This prize was established in 2000 in honor of Levi L. Conant to recognize the best expository paper published in either the … Continue reading →

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Jean-Marc Fontaine, 1944-2019

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Persiflage

The results which generate the most buzz in mathematics are usually those which can be expressed in an elementary (or at least pithy) way to a general mathematical audience. It is certainly true that such results may be profound (see … Continue reading →

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The classics

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Persiflage

I now have the complete collection from of light satirical music of the ’50s and ’60s from the two masters of the form from either side of the pond: They are both similar and very different at the same time … Continue reading →

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Tips for new postdocs

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Persiflage

In my role as junior hiring chair, I’ve been thinking a little bit about how a (R1) institution can best serve its postdocs. Many find the transition from graduate student life to being a postdoc somewhat of a rude shock. … Continue reading →

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Local-global compatibility for imaginary quadratic fields

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Persiflage

One of the key steps in the 10-author paper is to prove results on local-global compatibility for Galois representations associated to torsion classes. The results proved in that paper, unfortunately, fall well-short of the optimal desired local-global compatibility statement, because … Continue reading →

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Jacquet-Langlands and an old R=T conjecture

Posted on January 12, 2019 by Persiflage

This is part 2 of a series of posts on R=T conjectures for inner forms of GL(2). (See here for part 1). (Edit: this is still incorrect and there should have been a part 3, but I’ve been distracted… in … Continue reading →

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Jacquet-Langlands and a new R=T conjecture

Posted on January 8, 2019 by Persiflage

It is somewhat mysterious how one should formulate the Jacquet-Langlands correspondence integrally, particularly in the presence of torsion classes. Even the classical case has many subtleties including for example some results in this paper of Ribet. In the case of … Continue reading →

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And then there were 8:

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Persiflage

News from Minnesota on the 8-author paper has arrived! http://math.uchicago.edu/~fcale/blog/8author.mp4

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Organization

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Persiflage

This is the current state of my inbox: That either makes me very efficient and up to date, or simply very unpopular (or both!) I’m ready for the new year!

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New Results In Modularity, Christmas Update

Posted on December 25, 2018 by Persiflage

It’s a Christmas miracle! Keen watchers of this blog will be happy to learn that the 10 author paper discussed here and here is now available. (And just in case you also missed it, you can also find the other … Continue reading →

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