CMSA Seminar AI for the working mathematician: Finite locally free group schemes

Name: CMSA Seminar AI for the working mathematician: Finite locally free group schemes
Start: 2026-09-23T16:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-09-23T17:30:00-04:00
Location: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10

AI for the working mathematician, SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS

When: September 23, 2026

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10

Address: 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Speaker: Akhil Mathew (University of Chicago)

The notion of a finite locally free group scheme is a natural generalization of the usual notion of a finite group. Lagrange’s theorem states that all nth powers vanish in a group of order n. However, this need not hold for a group scheme. I will explain some history and motivation of this problem and describe a finite locally group scheme of order four (found by AI) where fourth powers are nonzero.

We hope you will join us in G10 in the basement of CMSA, 20 Garden Street. The seminar will also be broadcast online at the same time at the following zoom link.

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/94536195785?pwd=HpTRZMq5zxgHK8ODc25aWV7Lcx1TSC.1
Meeting ID: 945 3619 5785
Password: cmsa