Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar 2007-2008

Wednesdays 3:00-4:00 pm in 383-N

Schedule of talks:

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October 24 Joe Rabinoff A Homological Perspective on the Duality Theory of Abelian Varieties
October 31 Jarod Alper Luna's Slice Theorem
November 7 Jack Hall The Comparison Theorem (Jack's notes are here)
November 14 Nikolay Penev Perfect Stratifications of M_g
November 21 Thanksgiving break
November 28 Ziyu Zhang Basic properties of irreducible holomorphic symplectic manifolds
December 5 Jason Lo A projective moduli space of derived objects
January 30 Ben Williams Higher Chow Groups
February 6 Ben Williams The Derived Category of Motives
February 13 Jarod Alper Hilbert's 14th Problem (Jarod's notes are here)
February 20 Yu-jong Tzeng Counting nodal curves on surfaces
February 27 Kevin Tucker (University of Michigan) Jumping Numbers of Plane Curves
March 12 Nikolay Penev Chow groups of quotients varieties
April 1, 12-1 pm Jarod Alper Using groupoids to compute rings of invariants
April 9 Joe Rabinoff Tropical Geometry and Another Application to Arithmetic
May 7 Kirsten Wickelgren Grothendieck's Anabelian Conjectures
May 14 Jason Lo Overview of stability conditions
May 21 Yu-jong Tzeng Existence of Universal formulas for counting nodal curves on surfaces
May 28 Jack Hall Deformations of the Node
June 4 Ziyu Zhang TBA


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