Conference by Dr. Guillem Blanco (KU, Leuven, Belgium)
Member of the European Mathematical Young Academy (EMYA)
IEC Prize of the Section of Sciences and Technology of Mathematics (in honor of Assumpció Català i Poch), as the best thesis defended in Catalonia in the last 5 years.
Abstract:
The monodromy conjecture is one of the most important open problems in the theory of algebraic singularities. In its original form, this conjecture relates arithmetic properties of multivariate polynomials over the integers to geometric/topological properties of their complex zero sets. In this talk, we will use this problem to introduce different aspects of singularity theory.