Tag Archives: Kai-Wen Lan

Giving a good mathematics talk

Posted on November 2, 2024 by Persiflage

Last week, Tadashi Tokieda came to Chicago to give a colloquium. If you have seen him speak, you will not be surprised to learn that it was absolutely delightful talk. I carried the talk around with me in my mind … Continue reading →

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Mazur 80

Posted on June 10, 2018 by Persiflage

Last week I was in Cambridge for Barry’s 80th birthday conference. If you are wondering why it took so long for Barry to get a birthday conference, that’s probably because you didn’t know that there was *also* a 60th birthday … Continue reading →

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Higher direct images of canonical extensions

Posted on January 4, 2015 by Persiflage

I like Kai-Wen’s talks; he gives lots of examples, writes big with big chalk, and clearly explains the key points of the argument. I’m not sure I would classify his thesis as light reading material, but if he produced a … Continue reading →

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Galois Representations for non self-dual forms, Part II

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Persiflage

(Now with updates!) Let’s recap from part I. We have a Shimura variety \(Y\), a minimal projective compactification \(X\), and a (family of) smooth toroidal compactifications \(W\). We also have Galois representations of the correct shape associated to eigenclasses in … Continue reading →

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