I will discuss the arithmetic of cubic surfaces and show how recent work on Mordell curves allows one to say something unconditional about the existence of rational points on a family of cubic surfaces.

Les conjectures de Manin et Peyre décrivent la répartition des points rationnels de hauteur bornée sur une variété de Fano en terme d'invariants géométriques de cette variété. S'inspirant de travaux récents de La Bretèche et de Blomer, Brüdern et Salberger, on s'intéressera au cours de cet exposé aux conjectures de Manin et de Peyre dans le cas des hypersurfaces singulières de P^{2n-1} définies sur Q par les équations suivantes : x_1 y_2 ?R y_n + x_2 y_2 y_3 ?R y_n + ?R + x_n y_1 y_2 ?R y_{n-1} = 0, […]

I will start the talk with the classical Cayley transform for the special orthogonal group SO(n) defined by Arthur Cayley in 1846. A connected linear algebraic group G over a field K is called a Cayley group if it admits a Cayley map, that is, a G-equivariant birational isomorphism between the group variety G and its Lie algebra Lie(G). For example, SO(n) is a Cayley group. A linear algebraic group G is called stably Cayley if G x (K*)^r is Cayley for some natural number r. I will consider semisimple […]

Let W be a finite dimensional algebraic structure over a field K of characteristic zero (for example an algebra or a graded algebra). In this talk I will explain how to construct a symmetric monoidal category CW which is (up to some categorical data) a complete invariant of W. This category will be a form of RepK-G, where G is the algebraic group of automorphisms of W, over some subfield K0 of K. The field K0 can be thought of as the field of invariants of W, in a way […]