Mura Yakerson
Welcome to my home page!
I'm a Hermann-Weyl-Instructor at ETH Zürich,
at the Institute for Mathematical Research (FIM).
My mentor is Rahul Pandharipande.
The focus of my research is motivic homotopy theory,
which applies powerful methods of algebraic topology
to shed light on mysteries of algebraic geometry.
I did my PhD under supervision of Marc Levine
at the
Duisburg-Essen University.
And here is a story how my PhD program started: Jail-dreaming
"The more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
My News
- I started collecting essays and blogposts related to Math Empathy, send me more if you wish!
- On my YouTube channel "Math-life balance" I post my interviews with colleagues about their experience in math.
New interviews appear on Fridays at 6 pm CEST!
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New paper: hermitian K-theory obtains a new geometric model (which works even
in characteristic 2).
- Our seminar on algebraic K-theory eAKTS has restarted! We meet biweekly on Tuesdays at 6 pm CEST, videos appear here.
- On 25th May I will give a talk at the workshop "K-theory & related topics".
Abstract: Algebraic K-theory of vector bundles twisted by a Brauer class is represented by a motivic space. We will discuss some properties of these motivic spaces, as well as the corresponding motivic spectra. Time permitting, we will summarize a strategy for computing slices of twisted K-theory spectra, generalizing a computation by Bruno Kahn and Marc Levine. This work is very much in progress, joint with Elden Elmanto and Denis Nardin.
- On 6th June I will give a talk at the MIT workshop "Viva Talbot!".
Title: Avatars for algebraic K-theory in the motivic gather.town
Abstract: In this talk, we will design the motivic gather.town, invite algebraic K-theory to join the game and discuss different geometric avatars that we can offer. Warning: the game uses a lot of imagination, so bring your charger with you!
Events
- On July 5-16 I will be at the summer school "Enumerative geometry,
Physics and Representation Theory" in IHES.
- In October-December I will take part in "Moduli and Algebraic Cycles" at the Mittag-Leffler Institute.
- In June-July 2022 I will be part of "K-theory, algebraic cycles and motivic
homotopy theory" at the Newton Institute.
- ICM 2022 will happen in St. Petersburg, with visa-free entry for all participants!