About me

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. My ORCID iD is 0009-0009-4151-6824, and here are links to my genealogy and MathSciNet.

Current affiliation

I am a Walter Benjamin Fellow in the group of Antonio Lei at the University of Ottawa, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Publications

  1. On the Wedderburn decomposition of the total ring of quotients of certain Iwasawa algebras. Preprint. arXiv
  2. An equivariant p-adic Artin conjecture. Preprint. arXiv
  3. On the cohomology of plus/minus Selmer groups of supersingular elliptic curves in weakly ramified base fields. Joint with Katharina Müller. Research in Number Theory, Volume 11, article number 56, (2025). journal arXiv MR
  4. Graduated orders over completed group rings and conductor formulæ. Preprint. arXiv

Contact

  • E-mail:
    ⚠️ From September 30: forwarded to my private e-mail except for e-mails coming from within the UniBw.
  • E-mail: (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

Events

Research talks

Local talks and notes

Future events of possible interest

More events: MathMeetings, numbertheory.org, Kedlaya’s list