Speaker: Wieslawa Niziol
Date: February 16, 2017
Affiliation: CNRS, ENS-Lyon, France

Abstract: Syntomic cohomology is a refinement of etale cohomology that can be thought of as a p-adic analog of Deligne-Beilinson cohomology. It is used to study special values of p-adic L-functions. I will overview the properties of this cohomology and some of its applications.