Algebraic geometry at Stanford

There is a fair bit of algebraic geometry at Stanford, and as some of it is in somewhat unexpected places, this page is intended to point out where it is.

We have an algebraic geometry mailing list, where news will be sporadically sent. If you're interested, subscribe by going to http://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/algebraic_geometry and filling out the form. To mail to the list, e-mail algebraic_geometry-at-lists.stanford.edu.

Seminars

We have an active algebraic geometry seminar at Stanford, which meets weekly. We have a regular student seminar. There will be a new seminar this year, run by the younger people in the department. We have an algebraic geometry colloquium joint with Berkeley which meets four times per year.

The Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium is a twice-yearly conference rotating around the western U.S. and Canada. We hosted this conference in spring 2003, and expect to do so again regularly.

We often have funding to send students to conferences.

There are often talks in the topology, number theory, and symplectic geometry seminars that are related. The combinatorics and geometry seminar, run by Sam Payne and Matt Kahle, is often very related.

People in algebraic geometry

Along with Jun Li and myself, we have a number of postdoctoral or younger faculty and associates in the area:
  • Anthony Bak (algebraic geometry connected to mathematical physics)
  • Christian Liedtke (arithmetic algebraic geometry, visiting from Germany for the year)
  • Sam Payne (algebraic geometry, including toric and tropical geometry)
  • Andrew Snowden (algebro-geometric interests include invariant theory)
  • Jonathan Wise (algebraic geometry and Gromov-Witten theory, away this year)
  • Melanie Wood (arithmetic to algebraic geometry)
  • Dimitri Zvonkine (moduli of curves)

    I haven't bothered adding links to their webpages; just go to the department homepage or google to find them.

    There are also a good number of smart graduate students around who think about algebraic geometry (often in combination with something else) and are interesting to talk with, including the following. (The first four are working with me.)

  • Atoshi Choudhury
  • Jack Hall
  • Yuncheng Lin
  • Dung Nguyen
  • Julio Gutierrez
  • Jason Lo
  • Yu-jong Tzeng
  • many other students with algebro-geometric interests, including Jonathan Lee, Ben Williams, and more.

    Faculty with related interests

    Besides Jun Li and myself, there are a large number of people for algebraic geometers to talk with. Some of them may be shocked to find they are on such a list. In alphabetical order (with some algebro-geometric-related interests):
  • Greg Brumfiel (topology and real algebraic geometry)
  • Dan Bump (arithmetic geometry and automorphic forms)
  • Gunnar Carlsson (etale homotopy theory)
  • Ralph Cohen (moduli spaces of curves)
  • Brian Conrad (number theory and arithmetic geometry)
  • Persi Diaconis (combinatorics, toric varieties, and more)
  • Yasha Eliashberg (symplectic geometry, e.g. Gromov-Witten theory)
  • Soren Galatius (moduli space of curves)
  • Eleny Ionel (moduli of curves and Gromov-Witten theory, from the point of view of symplectic geometry)
  • Rafe Mazzeo (analysis on singular spaces)
  • Maryam Mirzakhani (moduli space of curves, hyperbolic geometry)
  • Akshay Venkatesh (number theory and arithmetic geometry)

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