Tag Archives: Kai-Wen Lan

Mazur 80

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

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

(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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