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Matthias Flach (mathematician)

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Education
  
Ph.D 1991 Mathematics

Role
  
Mathematician

Name
  
Matthias Flach

Known for
  
Algebraic geometry


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Occupation
  
Professor / Dept. chair


Alma mater
  
University of Cambridge

Matthias Flach is a German mathematician, professor and former executive officer for mathematics (department chair) at California Institute of Technology.

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Professional overview

Research interests includes:

  • Arithmetic algebraic geometry (see Glossary of arithmetic and Diophantine geometry).
  • Special values of L-functions.
  • Conjectures of:
  • Bloch
  • Beilinson
  • Deligne
  • Bloch–Kato conjecture (see also List of conjectures).
  • Galois module theory.
  • Motivic cohomology.
  • Education overview

  • Ph.D. University of Cambridge UK 1991 Dissertation: Selmer groups for the Symmetric Square of an Elliptic Curve – Algebraic geometry
  • B.A., J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany, 1986
  • Publications

  • Iwasawa Theory and Motivic L-functions (2009) – Flach, Matthias
  • On Galois structure invariants associated to Tate motives – Matthias Flach and D. Burns, King's College London
  • On the Equivariant Tamagawa Number Conjecture for Tate Motives, Part II. (2006) – Burns, David; Flach, Matthias.
  • Euler characteristics in relative K-groups – Matthias Flach
  • The equivariant Tamagawa number conjecture: A survey (with an appendix by C. Greither) – Matthias Flach
  • A geometric example of non-abelian Iwasawa theory, June 2004, Canadian Number Theory Association VIII Meeting – Flach, Matthias.
  • The Tamagawa number conjecture of adjoint motives of modular forms (2004) – Diamond, Fred; Flach, Matthias; Guo, Li.
  • Adjoint motives of modular forms and the Tamagawa number conjecture (2001) – Fred Diamond; Matthias Flach; Li Guo.
  • References

    Matthias Flach (mathematician) Wikipedia