Ben Forrás’s website

About me

Generalities

My full name is Bence Forrás, the “correct” pronunciation of which is [ˈbɛnt͡sɛ ˈforːaːʃ]. For German speakers, an acceptable alternative pronunciation of my last name is [fo'ʁas].

Feel free to call me Ben. My pronouns are he/him/his in English, er/ihm in German.

My name as written above follows Western name order, as is common for Hungarian names when used outside of Hungary. Even though we live in age of Unicode, it may happen that only basic Latin characters are supported, in which case the preferred transliteration is Forras.

Here is my curriculum vitæ.

Current affiliation

Since October 2023, I have been a postdoc in the group of Andreas Nickel at the Universität der Bundeswehr in München. See this page for more information.

Publications

Coming soon… Until then, you can read my dissertation.

Contact

• E-mail: ben.forras[meow]unibw[dot]de (for official business, including all Universität der Bundeswehr-related correspondence)
• E-mail: bforras[meow]bforras[dot]eu (general-purpose)
• Postal address: Universität der Bundeswehr München (INF 1 Institut für Theoretische Informatik, Mathematik und Operations Research), Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, 85579 Neubiberg
• Office: Building 41/400, Room 0405

Past affiliations

• 2020–2023: doctoral studies at ESAGA, Universität Duisburg-Essen
  Doctoral dissertation: An equivariant p-adic Artin conjecture, advisor: Andreas Nickel
• 2017–2020: MSc in Mathematics at RFWU Bonn, Germany (funded by BIGS)
  Master thesis: Iwasawa Theory, advisor: Dustin Clausen
• 2014–2017: BSc in Pure Mathematics at ELTE, Budapest, Hungary
  Bachelor thesis: Kummer’s Congruences and the p-adic Zeta-Function, advisor: Gergely Zábrádi

Events

• RTG Renewal Meeting: Essen, 12–13 December 2023
• ITCAG Workshop: Iwasawa theory and cohomology of arithmetic groups, 27–28 November 2023
• Kleine AG on Modularity Lifting Theorems: Bonn, 9 September 2023
• QuINGs 2023: West Lexham, Norfolk, UK, 30 August – 1 September 2023
• Iwasawa 2023: in memory of John Coates: University of Cambridge, 17–21 July 2023
• Arithmetic of L-functions: Madrid, 22–26 May 2023
• Spring School on Non-archimedean Geometry and Eigenvarieties: Heidelberg, 6–17 March 2023
• Number theory meets p-adic representations: Münster, 13–17 February 2023
• Seminar on special values of L-functions: Bielefeld, September 21, 2022
• Elliptic curves and modular forms in arithmetic geometry: Milano, September 12–16, 2022
• School on Arithmetic Geometry: Essen, September 5–9, 2022
• Young Researchers in Algebraic Number Theory (Y-RANT): Glasgow, August 23–25, 2022
• Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry: ICM sectional workshop, ETH Zürich, July 11–14, 2022
• Arizona Winter School: Tucson, March 5–9, 2022
• Neubiberger Zahlentheorie-Tage Herbst 2021: Universität der Bundeswehr München, September 30 – October 1, 2021

Research talks

• An equivariant p-adic Artin conjecture, QuINGs 2023: West Lexham, Norfolk, UK, 31 August 2023
• Integrality of smoothed p-adic Artin L-functions, Arithmetic of L-functions: Madrid, 24 May 2023
• Integrality of smoothed p-adic Artin L-functions, Seminar des SFB/TRR 326 GAUS: Heidelberg, February 3, 2023
• Integrality of smoothed p-adic Artin L-functions, IISc Number theory seminar: Bangalore, November 16, 2022
• Integrality of smoothed p-adic Artin L-functions, Seminar on special values of L-functions: Bielefeld, September 21, 2022
• Integrality of smoothed p-adic Artin L-functions, Young Researchers in Algebraic Number Theory (Y-RANT): Glasgow, August 23–25, 2022
• Integrality of the smoothed p-adic L-function, Neubiberger Zahlentheorie-Tage Herbst 2021: Universität der Bundeswehr München, September 30 – October 1, 2021

Local talks and notes

• The Langlands Correspondence: PhD seminar, June 21, 2023
• Integrality of smoothed p-adic Artin L-functions, RTG seminar: Essen, January 12, 2023
• Abstract Root Data: PhD seminar, January 25, 2023
• Weakly ramified extensions I and II: Galois module structure seminar, June 22 and 29, 2022
• Deformations of Galois representations II – lifting Galois representations: PhD seminar, July 8, 2022
• Towards the integrality of the p-adic L-function: PhD Days, October 7–8, 2021
• Discrete Adic Spaces (Globalisation I): Forschungsseminar, July 8, 2021
• Affinoid Algebras and Affinoid Spaces: PhD seminar, May 11, 2021
• Some reduction steps and the Ritter–Weiss module: Brumer–Stark seminar, December 1, 2020
• Divided Powers I: PhD seminar, November 4, 2020

Teaching

• WT 2024: Lineare Algebra 2
• HT 2023: Algorithmische Zahlentheorie
• HT 2023: Lineare Algebra
• WS 2021/22: Cyclotomic Fields and Iwasawa Theory
• WS 2016/17: Lineáris algebra
• 2014–2016: grading papers for KöMaL

Future events of possible interest