Stanford Algebraic Geometry Seminar 2005-2006

Fridays 3:15-4:15 pm in 383-N

Click on the title to see the abstract (if available). For more information, please contact Jun Li (jli), Sam Payne (sampayne) or Ravi Vakil (vakil), @math.you-know-where.edu. For last year's seminar listings, click here.

Schedule of talks:

October 14 Ravi Vakil (Stanford) Murphy's Law in algebraic geometry: Badly-behaved deformation spaces
October 21 Dragos Oprea (Stanford) On the intersection theory of the moduli space of rank 2 bundles
October 28 Frank Calegari (AIM/Harvard) Rational homology spheres and automorphic forms
November 4 Mihran Papikian (Stanford) Drinfeld modular varieties and curves with many rational points
November 11 Mihnea Popa (Chicago) Linear series on moduli spaces of vector bundles on curves
November 18 David Ben-Zvi (Texas) Langlands duality and real groups
November 25 (no seminar, thanksgiving recess)
December 2 (no seminar, because of WAGS December 3-4)
December 3-4 WAGS (the Western Algebraic Geometry Seminar) at the University of Utah
January 6 Martin Olsson (Texas) A modular compactification of A_g over the integers
Tuesday January 10, 4 pm Aleksey Zinger (Stony Brook) A desingularization of the moduli space of stable genus-one maps
January 20 Izzet Coskun (MIT) The ample and effective cones of Kontsevich moduli spaces
January 27 Lucia Caporaso (University of Rome III) On Abel-Neron maps
February 3 Ben Howard (Maryland) The projective invariants of ordered points on the line
Tuesday, February 7, 12:30 pm Alex Kasman (College of Charleston) The unexpected power of the rank 6 Plucker relation: A new view of Grassmannians from mathematical physics
February 10 Young-Hoon Kiem (Seoul) Hecke correspondence, stable maps and Kirwan's partial desingularization
February 17 Bumsig Kim (Korean Institute for Advanced Study) The generalized Hori-Vafa conjecture for big quantum cohomology
Wednesday, February 22, at noon Justin Walker (Stanford) A brief introduction to SAGE
February 24 Joel Kamnitzer (AIM/MIT) Cohomology of the moduli space of genus 0 real curves
March 10 (Number Theory/Alg Geom seminar) Henry Kim (Toronto) Holomorphy of the 9th symmetric power L-functions for Re(s)>1
March 17 no seminar because of WAGS; Samit Dasgupta (Harvard) will speak in a special number theory seminar at this time
March 18-19 Western Algebraic Geometry Seminar (WAGS), in Berkeley
Monday April 3, time 3-4 pm (note unusual date and time) Max Lieblich (Princeton) Boundedness of families of canonically polarized manifolds: A higher dimensional analogue of Shafarevich's conjecture
April 7 Balazs Szendroi (Oxford) Topological partition functions of certain local Calabi-Yau varieties
April 14 Aaron Bertram (Utah) Wall-crossing in the derived category of a K3 surface
April 21 Brian Conrad (Michigan) Branch scheme multiplicities and average behavior of the mobius function over finite fields
April 28 no seminar
May 5 2:30-3:20 Anca Mustata On the tautological rings of stable maps spaces in genus zero
May 5 3:30-4:20 Andrei Mustata Quasi-map spaces, small quantum cohomology and birational transformations
May 12 Sam Payne (Michigan, and soon: Clay/Stanford) Toric vector bundles and the resolution property
May 19 Dagan Karp (Berkeley) The Cremona transform in Gromov-Witten theory
May 26 very likely no seminar
Wednesday, June 21 (3:15 pm) (note unusual date) Qendri Gashi (Chicago) Vanishing results for toric varieties arising from root systems

Future speaker (in the fall): Gabriele Mondello (MIT).


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