Etale Cohomology Seminar, Fall 2011, UT Austin
We will be following Milne's Lectures on Etale Cohomology. Professor David Helm has generously agreed to participate. A tentative schedule of talks is below.
| August 29th | Hendrik Orem | Organizational meeting and motivation |
| September 6th | Pavel Safronov | Lecture 2: Etale Morphisms |
| September 8th | Travis Mandel | Lecture 3: The Etale Fundamental Group |
| September 13th | Gil Moss | Lecture 4: The Local Ring for the Etale Topology |
| September 15th | Iordan Ganev | Lecture 5: Sites |
| September 20th | Yuan Yao | Lecture 6: Sheaves for the Etale Topology |
| September 22st | Yuecheng Zhu | Lecture 7: The Category of Sheaves on X_{et} |
| September 27th | Bobby Grizzard | Lecture 8: Direct and Inverse Images of Sheaves |
| September 29th | Bobby Grizzard | Lecture 8 (Continued) |
| October 4th | Bobby Grizzard, David Helm | Lecture 8 (Conclusion) |
| October 6th | Hendrik Orem | Lecture 9: Cohomology: Definition and Basic Properties |
| October 11th | Pavel Safronov | Lecture 10: Cech Cohomology |
| October 13th | Travis Mandel | Lecture 11: Principal Homogeneous Spaces and H^1 |
| October 18th | Iordan Ganev | Lecture 12: Higher Direct Images; the Leray Spectral Sequence |
| October 20th | Gil Moss | Lecture 13: The Weil-Divisor Exact Sequence and the Cohomology of G_m |
| November 1st | Yuan Yao | Lecture 14: The Cohomology of Curves |
| November 3rd | Yuan Yao | Lecture 14: The Cohomology of Curves (Conclusion) |
| November 8th | Bobby Grizzard | Lecture 15: Cohomological dimension |
| November 10th | Yuecheng Zhu | Lecture 16: Purity; the Gysin Sequence |
| November 15th | Hendrik Orem | Lecture 17: The Proper Base Change Theorem |
| November 17th | Pavel Safronov | Lecture 18: Cohomology Groups with Compact Support |
| November ** | Travis Mandel | Lecture 19: Finiteness Theorems; Sheaves of Z_l-modules |
| November ** | Gil Moss | Lecture 20: The Smooth Base Change Theorem |