Category Archives: Work of my students

The horizontal Breuil-Mezard conjecture

Posted on October 19, 2023 by Persiflage

Postdoc hiring season will be upon us soon! I have two excellent graduate students who will be applying for academic jobs soon, Chengyang Bao and Andreea Iorga. I have mentioned Chengyang’s first project before here and an introduction to the … Continue reading →

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Potential Modularity of K3 surfaces

Posted on November 15, 2022 by Persiflage

This post is to report on results of my student Chao Gu who is graduating this (academic) year. If \(A/F\) is an abelian surface, then one can associate to \(A\) a K3 surface \(X\) (the Kummer surface) by blowing up … Continue reading →

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Locally induced representations

Posted on June 16, 2022 by Persiflage

Today is a post about work of my student Chengyang Bao. Recall that Lehmer’s conjecture asks whether \(\tau(p) \ne 0\) for all primes \(p\), where \(\Delta = q \prod_{n=1}^{\infty} (1 – q^n)^{24} = \sum \tau(n) q^n\) is Ramanujan’s modular form. … Continue reading →

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Murphy’s Law for Galois Deformation Rings

Posted on April 23, 2022 by Persiflage

Today’s post is about work of my student Andreea Iorga! A theorem of Ozaki from 2011, perhaps not as widely known as expected, says the following: Theorem: Let \(p\) be prime, and let \(G\) be a finite \(p\)-group. Then there … Continue reading →

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Hire my students!

Posted on November 18, 2020 by Persiflage

I have three students graduating this year: Shiva Chidambaram, Eric Stubley, and Noah Taylor. In light of the last post, I should give them a boost by reminding you of their (numerous) results which have been discussed on this blog. … Continue reading →

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Chidambaram on Galois representations (not) associated to abelian varieties over Q

Posted on October 13, 2020 by Persiflage

Today’s post is about a new paper by my student Shiva. Suppose that \(A/\mathbf{Q}\) is a principally polarized abelian variety of dimension \(g\) and \(p\) is a prime. The Galois representation on the \(p\)-torsion points \(A[p]\) gives rise to a … Continue reading →

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Families of Hilbert Modular Forms of Partial Weight One.

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Persiflage

Today I would like to talk about a beautiful new theorem of my student Eric Stubley (see also here). The first version of Eric’s result assumed (unknown) cases of the general Ramanujan conjecture for Hilbert modular forms, and relied on … Continue reading →

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Chidambaram on genus two curves, II

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Persiflage

We now continue a series of posts on the work of my student Shiva Chidambaram. (Click here for part I.) Today I would like to discuss another project with Shiva that was also joint with David Roberts (no, not David … Continue reading →

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