Graduate Seminar

Speaker: Saleh Ahmed (Western)

"What is Rigid Geometry and Why Should We Care?"

Time: 16:30

Room: MC 108

In short, rigid analytic geometry is a form of analytic geometry over nonarchimedean fields where the spaces of study are constructed by gluing polydiscs. In this talk, we will give an overview of this construction, explain how rigid geometry serves as an analogue to complex analytic geometry, and why attempting to naively mimic complex analytic geometry fails. We will conclude with a discussion on some applications.