Matthias Flach (mathematician)

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

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
 * Diplom, Goethe University 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.