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A motivic crash course

SEMINARS: THURSDAY SEMINAR

When: October 3, 2024
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Address: 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Speaker: Thomas Brazelton (Harvard)

We will give an overview of the construction of motivic spaces and spectra, highlighting the construction of Eilenberg–MacLane spaces and spectra. We will discuss motivic cohomology and the motive attached to a variety. Finally we will present some computations and key properties of motives that will be used later in the seminar.