Exotic Heegner points and cycles on Kuga-Sato varieties. Henri Darnom Abstract: I will describe a new construction of algebraic points on CM elliptic curves arising from higher-dimensional algebraic cycles on (self-products of) Kuga-Sato varieties, and the indirect evidence it gives for the Tate conjecture in certain cases. This is joint work with Massimo Bertolini and Kartik Prasanna.