This lecture series is based on the 6 lectures I gave at the instructional workshop "Iwasawa Theory over function fields" at ICMAT (Madrid, Spain). The aim of this lecture series is to explain the formulation of the equivariant BSD conjecture over global function fields, following the joint work with D. Burns and M. Kakde. In the next two--three talks, I will explain the backgrounds on K_1 and relative K_0 of group rings for finite groups over local/global fields of characteristic 0 and their orders.

This lecture series is based on the 6 lectures I gave at the instructional workshop "Iwasawa Theory over function fields" at ICMAT (Madrid, Spain). The aim of this lecture series is to explain the formulation of the equivariant BSD conjecture over global function fields, following the joint work with D. Burns and M. Kakde. In the first three talks, I will explain the backgrounds on Selmer groups and flat cohomology.

Diffusion is a macroscopic phenomenon arising from the random movement of particles at the microscopic level. Fick’s law predicts uniform spreading of particles over time, while fractionation is often observed in heterogeneous environments, as in the Soret effect and Darken’s experiment. In this talk, we show that such heterogeneous diffusion can be described by a two-coefficient diffusion equation derived from particle dynamics. In particular, for persistent random walks, fractionation occurs only when both heterogeneity and anisotropy are present. We formally derive the limiting diffusion equation and present a methodology to rigorously establish convergence from a persistent discrete kinetic equation to the macroscopic diffusion equation.

his lecture series is based on the 6 lectures I gave at the instructional workshop "Iwasawa Theory over function fields" at ICMAT (Madrid, Spain). The aim of this lecture series is to explain the formulation of the equivariant BSD conjecture over global function fields, following the joint work with D. Burns and M. Kakde. In the first two or three talks, I will explain the backgrounds on Selmer groups and flat cohomology.