Dr. F.C. Kohli Centre of ExcellencePerspectives in Mathematical SciencesJanuary 10–February 4, 2022Thursday, 13 January 2022, 19:30 ISTAnanth Shankar, University of Wisconsin, MadisonTitle Special points on moduli spaces (Video Recording) Abstract The study of moduli spaces, and special points in moduli spaces, has been of arithmetic interest. In this talk, I will speak about results pertaining to the algebraic and analytic distribution of special points, and touch upon topics such as the Andre-Oort conjecture, the p-adic distribution of special points, and the p-adic and mod p distribution of isogeny-orbits in these moduli spaces. About the speaker
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Ananth Shankar is at the Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin at Madison. He graduated with a BSc in
Mathematics and Computer Science at the Chennai Mathematical
Institute in 2012. He received his PhD at Harvard University in
2017 where he worked under the supervision of Prof Mark
Kisin. After that he was at MIT as a CLE Moore Instructor until
2020.. His primary interests are in arithmetic geometry and
number theory. He has worked on the Arithmetic aspects of
Shimura varieties, the Grothendieck-Katz p-curvature conjecture
and Arithmetic Statistics.
