Max Mornev

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Research area

Number theory

Preprints and papers

Local Kummer theory for Drinfeld modules
(with Richard Pink)
arXiv:2402.08254

Local monodromy of Drinfeld modules
arXiv:2305.17579

Tate modules of isocrystals and good reduction of Drinfeld modules
Algebra & Number Theory 15 (2021), no. 4, 909–970

Shtuka cohomology and special values of Goss L-functions
arXiv:1808.00839

Tannakian properties of unit Frobenius-modules
J. Number Theory 166 (2016), 19–30

Employment

2021EPFL, SNSF Ambizione post-doc in the group of Maryna Viazovska.

2018ETH Zürich, post-doc in the group of Richard Pink.

Education

2018PhD, Universiteit Leiden, Università degli Studi di Milano
ALGANT program

Advisors: Lenny Taelman (Amsterdam), Fabrizio Andreatta (Milano) and
Bas Edixhoven (Leiden).
Thesis: Shtuka cohomology and special values of Goss L-functions
https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/61145

2013MSc, Universiteit Leiden (1st year), Université Paris-Sud (2nd year)
ALGANT program

Advisor: François Charles
Thesis: Zero-cycles on surfaces
http://algant.eu/documents/theses/mornev.pdf

2011MSc degree in «Mathematics. Computer Science», Ural Federal University

Grants

SNSF Ambizione grant, 2021 – 2025

ETH Zürich Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2019 – 2021

Leiden/Huygens Fellowship, 2013 – 2017
There are three such fellowships per year for the entire faculty of science.

ALGANT Doctoral Scholarship, 2013 – 2017

ALGANT Master Scholarship, 2011 – 2013

Lecture series

2020Arithmetic of function fields
ICMAT, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

2019Shtuka cohomology and special values of Goss L-functions
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

2018Arithmetic of shtukas
Arithmétique et géométrie des chtoucas
Université de Caen

Teaching

Riemann surfaces (MATH-410)
EPFL, Fall 2023, master level course, lecturer.

p-adic Galois representations
ETH Zürich, Fall 2019, lecturer.

Étale cohomology seminar
ETH Zürich, 2018 – 2019, co-organized with Richard Pink.
http://sma.epfl.ch/~mornev/etale.html

Galois Representations and Automorphic Forms
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Fall 2016, national graduate level course,
teaching assistant.

Talks

2022Local monodromy of A-motives
Second joint congress of AMS–EMS–SMF
Université Grenoble Alpes

2021An ∞-adic criterion of good reduction for Drinfeld modules
Groups, arithmetic and algebraic geometry seminar
EPFL

What is a shtuka?
Groups, arithmetic and algebraic geometry seminar
EPFL

What is a shtuka?
Zürich Graduate Colloquium
ETH Zürich

Local monodromy of Drinfeld modules
Universität Münster

2020Local monodromy of Drinfeld modules
Number Theory Seminar
University of California San Diego

Local monodromy of Drinfeld modules
AMS Fall Eastern Virtual Sectional Meeting

Local monodromy of Drinfeld modules
Oberseminar Algebraische Geometrie
Universität Zürich

Tate conjectures in function field arithmetic
Upstate New York Online Number Theory Colloquium

2019An ∞-adic criterion of good reduction for Drinfeld modules
Arithmetic of Function Fields and Diophantine Geometry
National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei

Shtuka cohomology and special values of Goss L-functions
AMS Spring Central and Western Joint Sectional Meeting
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

An ∞-adic criterion of good reduction for Drinfeld modules
Hawaiʻi Number Theory Conference
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

2018Shtuka cohomology and special values of Goss L-functions
Seminar der Forschergruppe 'Symmetrie, Geometrie und Arithmetik'
Universität Heidelberg

Regulator theory for elliptic shtukas
Arithmetic and algebraic geometry seminar
Universiteit van Amsterdam

Formulas of Tamagawa type in positive characteristic
This Week's Discoveries (Faculty of Science colloquium)
Universiteit Leiden

2017Shtuka cohomology and special values of Goss L-functions
Conference «Arithmetic of Function Fields»
Universität Münster

Shtuka cohomology and special values of Goss L-functions
Intercity number theory seminar
Universiteit van Amsterdam

2016Shtuka cohomology and special values of Drinfeld modules
Seminar Zahlentheorie
ETH Zürich

2015Tannakian properties of Frobenius-invariant sheaves
Workshop on function fields, zeta functions and Drinfeld modular forms
Imperial College London

Organizational experience

2011School on algebra and algebraic geometry (Yekaterinburg)
https://marina-p.info/school-on-algebra-and-algebraic-geometry

In 2015 Pavel Solomatin and I organized a research seminar on Drinfeld modules:
https://sma.epfl.ch/~mornev/dm.html

Service

Reviewed a grant application, a book and numerous papers.

Last modified: February 15, 2024.