Learning Seminar on Stacks

In this learning seminar on stacks, we are following Olsson's book on Algebraic Spaces and Stacks. Each session consists of one hour talk and approximately 40 minutes of exercises/examples/constructive proofs/discussion.


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Session Day Speaker Content
Session 1 Friday April 26, 4 pm Sara Mehidi Chapter 1 & 2: Background (1/2):
Motivation for studying stacks, Grothendieck topologies, sites, projective limits, étale/fppf sheaves, topos and morphisms of topos. Notes.
Session 2 Monday April 29, 5 pm Amira Tlemsani Chapter 1 & 2: Background (2/2):
Continuous functors between topos, when to lift a continuous functor between sites into a functor in the induced topos, representable functors are sheaves for the fppf topology.
Session 3 Friday May 3, 3 pm Zakaria Ouaras Chapter 3: Fibered categories (1/2):
Cartesian maps, fibered categories, the 2-Yoneda lemma, categories fibered in sets (the 1-Yoneda lemma), the category of presheaves is equivalent to that of fibered categories in sets.
Session 4 Monday May 13, 3 pm Sara Mehidi Chapter 3 (2/2):
Cleavage in a fibered category, splitting fibered categories, groupoids, categories fibered in groupoids. Notes.
Session 5 Wednesday May 22, 3 pm Amira Tlemsani Chapter 4: Descent and the stack condition (1/2):
Faithfully flat descent, generalities on descent, example: a morphism with a section is an effective descent morphism.
Session 6 Monday May 27, 3 pm Zakaria Ouaras Chapter 4 (2/2):
More examples of effective descent morphisms (closed subschemes, open embeddings, affine morphisms, polarized schemes, M_g), prestacks and stacks, stackification, fiber product of stacks. Notes
Session 7 Thursday June 06, 3 pm Sara Mehidi Chapter 5: Algebraic spaces (1/2):
Representable morphisms of sheaves, definition of an algebraic space, étale equivalence relation, any algebraic space is the quotient of a scheme by an étale équivalence relation and conversely, example of an algebraic space: the quotient of a scheme by a discrete group acting freely. Notes.
Session 8 Friday June 14, 3 pm Amira Tlemsani & Céline Fietz Chapter 5 (2/2):
Examples of algebraic spaces which are not schemes, the quotient of an affine scheme by a finite étale equivalence relation is a scheme (eg. free action of a finite discrete group). Notes. Some properties of morphisms of algebraic spaces, quasi-separatedness/ separatedness/ quasi-compactness, algebraic spaces are fppf sheaves. Notes.
Session 9 Monday June 24, 3 pm Amira Tlemsani & Céline Fietz Chapter 8: Algebraic stacks (1/2):
Definition of algebraic stack and fiber products Notes, properties of algebraic stacks and morphisms between them Notes.
Session 10 Friday June 28, 3 pm Boaz Moerman Chapter 8 (2/2):
Deligne-Mumford stacks, examples. Notes.

Organizers:
Sara Mehidi (University of Utrecht; s.mehidi[at]uu.nl);
Zakaria Ouaras (University of Nice; ouaras[at]unice.fr);
Amira Tlemsani (University of Leiden; a.tlemsani[at]math.leidenuniv.nl).