Angelo Vistoli

Abstract: Let X be a variety over a field k, with a fixed rational point x_0 in X(k). Nori defined a profinite group scheme N(X,x_0), usually called Nori's fundamental group, with the property that homomorphisms N(X,x_0) to a fixed finite group...

Galois cohomological invariants for algebraic groups are an arithmetic analogue of characteristic classes in algebraic topology; Totaro and Guillot connected them to unramified étale cohomology and Rost’s higher Chow Groups. In his PhD thesis...