Mini Course 2007 : Quadratic Forms, Triangulated Categories and Valuations

11-15 June 2007, Lens (FRANCE)
Organization committee: Ahmed Laghribi, Pasquale Mammone, Jean-Pierre Tignol.

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The program of this mini course includes three research courses (each of five hours), and three 1-hour talks:

Courses:

Paul Balmer (ETH Zürich)
"An introduction to tensor triangular geometry."

Jean-Pierre Tignol (Université catholique de Louvain)
"Value functions and associated graded rings."

Alexander Vishik (University of Nottingham)
"Symmetric operations in algebraic cobordism and their applications."

Talks:

Baptiste Calmès (University of Cambridge)
"Witt groups of Grassmannians."

Nikita Karpenko (Université Paris 7)
"Canonical dimension of PGL_6."

Albrecht Pfister (Universität Mainz, Germany)
"About Witt."