| Joint IAS-PU Number Theory Seminar | |
| Topic: | Modularity Lifting in Non-Regular Weight |
| Speaker: | David Geraghty |
| Affiliation: | Princeton University |
| Date: | Thursday, February 23 |
| Time/Room: | 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall -- 214 |
Modularity lifting theorems were introduced by Taylor and Wiles and formed a key part of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Their method has been generalized successfully by a number of authors but always with the restriction that the Galois representations and automorphic representations in question have regular weight. I will describe a method to overcome this restriction in certain cases. I will focus mainly on the case of weight 1 elliptic modular forms. This is joint work with Frank Calegari.