Motivic classes of algebraic stacks

Abstract: The Grothendieck ring of algebraic stacks was introduced by T. Ekedahl in 2009, following up on work of other authors. It is a generalization of the Grothendieck ring of varieties. If G is a linear algebraic group, it is an interesting problem to compute the motivic class of its classifying stack BG in this ring. I will give a brief introduction to the Grothendieck ring of stacks, and then explain some of my results in the area.

algebraic geometry

Audience: researchers in the discipline

American Graduate Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Series comments: The American Graduate Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar (AGSAGS) is a virtual seminar by and for algebraic geometry graduate students.

The goal of this seminar is for graduate students to share their research through online talks and to provide an algebraic geometry graduate networking system. Grad students, postdocs, and professors are welcome to attend.

Seminars will be held on Mondays at 4 p.m. Eastern on Zoom. We hope this time is convenient for graduate students in the Americas, hence the name AGSAGS. Prior registration is required and interested participants should register here: sites.google.com/view/agsags/registration. In addition to graduate talks, there will be occasional social events.