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Constructive Galois Theory

October 4-8, 1999

Berkeley, CA, USA

Mathematics

Host: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Homepage: http://www.msri.org/activities/programs/9900/galois/cgt/
Email: cgt@msri.org

Organizers: Moshe Jarden (Tel Aviv), Gunter Malle (Kassel), Helmut Voelklein (University of Florida)

Description:
As part of the Fall 1999 program in Galois Groups and Fundamental Groups, MSRI will host a one-week workshop in Constructive Galois Theory, October 4-8, 1999. Topics of the workshop include :

Construction of Galois extensions of function fields using "rigidity" and more generally, moduli spaces for covers of the Riemann sphere and associated monodromy action of the braid group; realizations of simple groups and classical groups as Galois groups over number fields; constructions of Galois covers of curves over finite fields; computational Galois theory.

Patching constructions using formal and rigid geometry; deformations (liftings) of given Galois covers. Applications to Galois groups and fundamental groups in characteristic p and for higher dimensional varieties.

Galois embedding problems: realizations of composite groups as Galois groups over global fields; realization and structure of profinite Galois extensions; connections to rigid analytic and formal geometric constructions.

Connections with field arithmetic: constructions over fields with special properties (algebraically closed, complete, henselian, PAC, hilbertian, etc.).

Invariant theory of finite groups, generic polynomials, and Noether's method.

Mail Address:

Constructive Galois Theory
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
1000 Centennial Drive
Berkeley, CA 94720-5070.

Date received: August 27, 1999


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