Kai Behrend | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

University of British Columbia

Prof. Behrend did graduate work under Günter Harder in Bonn (Germany) and received his Ph.D. under Arthur Ogus in Berkeley (California), in 1991. He was a CLE Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before joining the faculty of the University of British Columbia in 1995. Dr. Behrend has hold visiting positions at the Max Planck Institute in Bonn (Germany), the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Kyoto (Japan), the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley (California), and Imperial College London (England). Dr. Behrend's research is in Algebraic Geometry. Most of his contributions are to the field of moduli problems. He is recipient of the PIMS research prize in 2001, has given the Coxeter-James Prize Lectureship of the Canadian Mathematical Society, is holding a Distinguished Professor award at UBC since 2008, and is the 2011 recipient of the Jefferey-Williams Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society. Prof. Behrend served on the SRP until Summer 2015.

John Pardon has recently proved the Gromov-Witten Donaldson-Thomas correspondence using a new homology/cohomology machinery for 1-cycles in 3-folds. We study a much simplified version, namely for 0-cycles (points) in curves. In this case the theory...

WAGS aims to build a regional community among algebraic geometers of all career stages, from advanced undergraduates to full professors. The meetings are centered around research talks delivered by leading mathematicians from around the world...

Abstract: I will talk on joint work in progress with Behrang Noohi. We study the GIT problem given by the differential graded Lie algebra of Hochschild cochains of a finite graded algebra. This will lead to a definition of stability for non...

Motivated by subtle questions in Donaldson-Thomas theory, we study the spectrum of the inertia operator on the Grothendieck module of algebraic stacks. We hope to give an idea of what this statement means. Along the way, we encounter some elementary...