The Weil group of a two-dimensional local field

Seminar: 
Algebra and Lie Groups
Event time: 
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 10:45am to 11:45am
Location: 
214LOM
Speaker: 
Karen Acquista
Speaker affiliation: 
Boston University
Event description: 

I will speak on class field theory in higher dimensions,
following Kato and Parshin. Given a sufficiently strong cohomological
version of class field theory, I will explain how to construct a Weil
group at every finite level, following the method of Artin-Tate. I
will focus on the case of a 2-local field.