Special loci for local systems

Name: Special loci for local systems
Start: 2025-11-11T15:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-11T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Science Center 507

SEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY

When: November 11, 2025

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Where: Science Center 507

Address: 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Speaker: Bruno Klingler (Humboldt Univ.)

Given a local system on a complex algebraic variety, what are the subvarieties on which the monodromy drops? The talk will discuss these monodromy special loci, a natural generalisation of (the positive period dimension components of) the Hodge loci.