Babyseminar WS 2026/27: Shimura Varieties

Welcome to the webpage for the Babyseminar on Shimura varieties in the winter semester 2026/27.

Here is the program for the seminar.

The seminar will start on October 14th and will take place every Wednesday in room N-U-2.04. The talks will start at 10:15 a.m. and last about 90 minutes.

Below is a table with the dates, talk topics, and speakers. Everyone is very welcome to volunteer for a talk! Please let me know if you would like to give one.

 

	Date	Topic	Speaker
Talk 0	14.10.2026	Introduction	Wenkang
Talk 1	21.10.2026	Modular curves	Marco
Talk 2	28.10.2026	Algebraic groups	Veronica
Talk 3	04.11.2026	Hodge structures and the Deligne torus	Federica
Talk 4	11.11.2026	Variations of Hodge structures and period domains	Lennart
Talk 5	18.11.2026	Hermitian symmetric domains	Saverio
Talk 6	25.11.2026	Shimura data and their examples	Xian
Talk 7	02.12.2026	Shimura varieties
Talk 8	09.12.2026	Abelian varieties and Siegel modular varieties	Evan
Talk 9	16.12.2026	Mumford–Tate groups	Anna
Talk 10	13.01.2027	Mumford–Tate groups in families	David
Talk 11	20.01.2027	Rational boundaries and the Baily–Borel compactification	Evan
Talk 12	27.01.2027	Toroidal compactifications	Linda