New modular embeddings and applications

Seminar: 
GATSBY
Event time: 
Saturday, November 14, 2026 - 10:45am
Location: 
KT 101
Speaker: 
Matthew Stover
Speaker affiliation: 
CUNY Graduate Center
Event description: 

This talk will start with a construction of Fuchsian groups with a modular embedding coming from complex hyperbolic surfaces. These do not come from any previous construction. I will then discuss some even newer developments giving rigidity and structure theorems for nonarithmetic lattices.