About me
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Generalities
These days, I go by the name Ben Forrás, with a Germanised pronunciation [bɛn fo'ʁas]. Feel free to call me Ben. My pronouns are he/him/his in English, er/ihm in German. My full legal name is Bence Forrás, the original pronunciation of which is [ˈbɛnt͡sɛ ˈforːaːʃ].
Here is my curriculum vitæ.
Current affiliation
Since October 2023, I have been a postdoc in the group of Andreas Nickel at the Universität der Bundeswehr in München. See this page for more information.
Publications
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On the Wedderburn decomposition of the total ring of quotients of certain Iwasawa algebras. (arXiv)
Preprint. Last update: 2024-03-07. 58 pages. -
An equivariant p-adic Artin conjecture. (arXiv)
Preprint. Last update: 2024-04-23. 31 pages. -
On the cohomology of plus/minus Selmer groups of supersingular elliptic curves in weakly ramified base fields. Joint with Katharina Müller. (arXiv)
Preprint. Last update: 2024-07-11. 29 pages.
Contact
- E-mail: ben.forras[meow]unibw[dot]de (for official business, including all UniBw M-related correspondence)
- E-mail: bforras[meow]bforras[dot]eu (general-purpose)
- Postal address: Universität der Bundeswehr München (INF 1 Institut für Theoretische Informatik, Mathematik und Operations Research), Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, 85579 Neubiberg
- Office: Building 41/400, Room 0405
Past affiliations
- 2020–2023: doctoral studies at ESAGA, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany (as part of RTG 2553)
Doctoral dissertation: An equivariant p-adic Artin conjecture, advisor: Andreas Nickel - 2017–2020: MSc in Mathematics at RFWU Bonn, Germany (funded by BIGS)
Master thesis: Iwasawa Theory, advisor: Dustin Clausen - 2014–2017: BSc in Pure Mathematics at ELTE, Budapest, Hungary
Bachelor thesis: Kummer’s Congruences and the p-adic Zeta-Function, advisor: Gergely Zábrádi
Events
- ENTR Workshop 24: Essen, 18–20 September 2024
- Algebraic Number Theory – A workshop for young researchers: UniBw München, 2–6 September 2024
- Recent Progress on Hilbert’s 12th Problem: ICMS, Bayes Centre, Edinburgh, 24–28 June 2024 (online)
- Modular Forms, L-functions, and Eigenvarieties: Paris, 18–21 June 2024
- RTG Renewal Meeting: Essen, 12–13 December 2023 (my poster)
- ITCAG Workshop: Iwasawa theory and cohomology of arithmetic groups, 27–28 November 2023
- Kleine AG on Modularity Lifting Theorems: Bonn, 9 September 2023
- QuINGs 2023: West Lexham, Norfolk, UK, 30 August – 1 September 2023
- Iwasawa 2023: in memory of John Coates: University of Cambridge, 17–21 July 2023
- Arithmetic of L-functions: Madrid, 22–26 May 2023
- Spring School on Non-archimedean Geometry and Eigenvarieties: Heidelberg, 6–17 March 2023
- Number theory meets p-adic representations: Münster, 13–17 February 2023
- Seminar on special values of L-functions: Bielefeld, September 21, 2022
- Elliptic curves and modular forms in arithmetic geometry: Milano, September 12–16, 2022
- School on Arithmetic Geometry: Essen, September 5–9, 2022
- Young Researchers in Algebraic Number Theory (Y-RANT): Glasgow, August 23–25, 2022
- Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry: ICM sectional workshop, ETH Zürich, July 11–14, 2022
- Arizona Winter School: Tucson, March 5–9, 2022
- Neubiberger Zahlentheorie-Tage Herbst 2021: Universität der Bundeswehr München, September 30 – October 1, 2021
Research talks
- tba, ENTR Workshop 24: Essen, September 2024
- An equivariant p-adic Artin conjecture, QuINGs 2023: West Lexham, Norfolk, UK, 31 August 2023
- Integrality of smoothed p-adic Artin L-functions, Arithmetic of L-functions: Madrid, 24 May 2023
- Integrality of smoothed p-adic Artin L-functions, Seminar des SFB/TRR 326 GAUS: Heidelberg, February 3, 2023
- Integrality of smoothed p-adic Artin L-functions, IISc Number theory seminar: Bangalore, November 16, 2022
- Integrality of smoothed p-adic Artin L-functions, Seminar on special values of L-functions: Bielefeld, September 21, 2022
- Integrality of smoothed p-adic Artin L-functions, Young Researchers in Algebraic Number Theory (Y-RANT): Glasgow, August 23–25, 2022
- Integrality of the smoothed p-adic L-function, Neubiberger Zahlentheorie-Tage Herbst 2021: Universität der Bundeswehr München, September 30 – October 1, 2021
Local talks and notes
- Iwasawa Theory: Talk 11, Oberseminar Arithmetische Geometrie, Regensburg, July 1, 2024
- Iwasawa Theory I: Talk 11, Oberseminar Arithmetische Geometrie, Regensburg, February 8, 2024
- The Langlands Correspondence: PhD seminar, June 21, 2023
- Integrality of smoothed p-adic Artin L-functions, RTG seminar: Essen, January 12, 2023
- Abstract Root Data: PhD seminar, January 25, 2023
- Weakly ramified extensions I and II: Galois module structure seminar, June 22 and 29, 2022
- Deformations of Galois representations II – lifting Galois representations: PhD seminar, July 8, 2022
- Towards the integrality of the p-adic L-function: PhD Days, October 7–8, 2021
- Discrete Adic Spaces (Globalisation I): Forschungsseminar, July 8, 2021
- Affinoid Algebras and Affinoid Spaces: PhD seminar, May 11, 2021
- Some reduction steps and the Ritter–Weiss module: Brumer–Stark seminar, December 1, 2020
- Divided Powers I: PhD seminar, November 4, 2020
Future events of possible interest
- 33èmes Journées Arithmétiques : Luxembourg, 30 June – 4 July 2025 (registration opens autumn 2024)
- Arithmetic cycles, Modular forms, and L-functions, a celebration of the mathematics of Henri Darmon on the occasion of his 60th birthday: Montreal, 18–22 August 2025
More events: MathMeetings, numbertheory.org, Kedlaya’s list