AGBC, Seattle, July 18-22, 2005. Lecture Notes.
Monday, July 18, 2005.
Speaker
Title
Notes by
Daniel Allcock
Introduction to Chevalley Groups.
Daniel Allcock
Tony Pantev
Jim Bryan
What sorts of algebro-geometric objects arise in physics and why should we care?
Tony Pantev
Mircea Mustata
Spaces of arcs and birational geometry.
Mircea Mustata
Tony Pantev
Tuesday, July 19, 2005.
Speaker
Title
Notes by
Tom Graber
Introduction to stacks.
Rob Easton
Ron Donagi
From strings to standard models via algebraic geometry.
Ron Donagi
Angela Gibney
What is a moduli space and why do algebraic geometers love them?
Angela Gibney
Wednesday, July 20, 2005.
Speaker
Title
Notes by
Mike Roth
Hilbert schemes.
Tony Pantev
Elena Mantovan
Langlands' conjectures and Shimura varieties.
Joe Rabinoff
James McKernan
Birational classification of varieties.
James McKernan
Thursday, July 21, 2005.
Speaker
Title
Notes by
Stefan Kebekus
Why rational curves?.
Stefan Kebekus
Gabi Farkas
Syzygies of algebraic varieties and Green's conjecture.
Gabi Farkas
Linda Chen
Equivariant cohomology.
Kirsten Wickelgren
Friday, July 22, 2005.
Speaker
Title
Notes by
David Ben-Zvi
What's the deal with geometric Langlands?
Parker Lowrey
Brendan Hassett
Density of rational points.
Brendan Hassett
Ezra Miller
Combinatorial positivity in algebraic varieties.
Ezra Miller