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Alex Youcis

Berkeley, CA

http://ayoucis.wordpress.com

I am a postdoc at IMPAN. My interests are mainly in the Langlands program and surrounding areas of arithmetic geometry.

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Best Sets of Lecture Notes and Articles

self-learning big-list learning online-resources asked Feb 13 '13 at 9:15
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Algebraic Intuition for Homological Algebra and Applications to More Elementary Algebra

soft-question intuition homological-algebra applications asked Nov 11 '11 at 20:36
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56 votes

Intuition for the Importance of Modular Forms

number-theory intuition modular-forms asked Mar 9 '13 at 8:51
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Perspectives on Riemann Surfaces

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19 votes

Is the Dieudonne module actually a cohomology group?

arithmetic-geometry crystalline-cohomology asked Apr 3 '16 at 12:24
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Algebraic spaces as locally ringed spaces

ag.algebraic-geometry stacks asked Feb 5 '16 at 8:40
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14 votes

Definition of discrete spectrum and continuous and basic properties

rt.representation-theory harmonic-analysis automorphic-forms reductive-groups asked May 1 '16 at 13:21
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11 votes

Relationship between étale and topological $K(\pi,1)$s

ag.algebraic-geometry fundamental-group etale-covers asked Jul 25 '15 at 14:41
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10 votes

Extension of Messing-Mazur-Oda to general groups

ag.algebraic-geometry arithmetic-geometry crystalline-cohomology dieudonne asked Sep 23 '15 at 8:49
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9 votes

Morphisms for good reduction are maps respecting filtration

ag.algebraic-geometry arithmetic-geometry abelian-varieties p-adic-hodge-theory crystalline-cohomology asked Apr 27 '16 at 19:33
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