Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar
2000-2001: Tuesdays 3:00-4:00


The Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar will alternate between MIT (Room 4-163 unless otherwise noted) and Harvard (Room 507) on Tuesdays. For directions to MIT Room 4-163, click here. The current year's seminars are here. The previous year's seminars are here.

Schedule of upcoming talks:

Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).

September 12 Sean Keel (U.T. Austin) MIT What morphisms are there from the moduli space of curves to other projective varieties?
September 19 Michael Thaddeus (Columbia) Harvard Mirror symmetry, Langlands duality, and the Hitchin system
September 26 Stefan Schroeer (MIT) MIT Logarithmic deformations of generalized normal crossing spaces
October 3 Hal Schenck (Harvard) Harvard Cohomology vanishing and a problem in approximation theory
October 10 No seminar Columbus Day
October 17 Stephen Lichtenbaum (Brown) MIT A cohomological interpretation of special values of zeta-functions
October 24 Karen Chandler (Notre Dame) Harvard Conjectures on higher order singularities
October 31 Alexander Polishchuk (Boston U) MIT Witten's class on the moduli space of curves with higher spin structures
November 7 Jason Starr (MIT) Harvard Rational connectedness of spaces of rational curves
November 14 Marc Levine (Northeastern) MIT Algebraic cobordism and degree formulas
November 21 Eduardo de Sequeira Esteves (IMPA) Harvard Limit canonical systems on curves with two components
November 28 Fabrizio Catanese (Gottingen) MIT Pencils of low genus
December 5 Ravi Vakil (MIT) Harvard Branched covers of the sphere and the Chow ring of the moduli space of curves
December 12 Spencer Bloch (Chicago) MIT Connections and epsilon-factors (CANCELLED)
December 19 Anders Buch (MIT) Harvard The structure sheaf of a quiver variety
February 6 Serge Lang (Yale) MIT Cyclotomic points, very anti-canonical varieties, and quasi-algebraic closure
February 13 A. Johan de Jong (MIT) Harvard Counting elliptic curves over the projective line
February 20 Mircea Mustata (Berkeley) MIT Rm. 4-270 Jet schemes of singular varieties
February 27 Rob Lazarsfeld (Michigan) Harvard Algebraic applications of multiplier ideals
March 6 Sándor Kovács (Washington) MIT Families of varieties of general type
March 13 Herb Clemens (Utah) Harvard Rank-two vector bundles over a general curve: A conjecture of Bertram-Feinberg-Mukai
March 20 Yves Laszlo (Ecole Polytechnique) MIT A few results about Frobenius stable bundles
March 27 No Algebraic Geometry Seminar MIT and Harvard breaks
March 28-30 Laurent Lafforgue (IHES) MIT (see poster for rooms and times) Simons Lectures on Drinfeld's shtukas and the Langlands correpondence
April 3 Mihnea Popa (Michigan) Harvard Stable maps and Quot schemes
April 10 Aaron Bertram (Utah) MIT Using symmetry to count rational curves
April 17 Joe Harris (Harvard) Harvard Families of rationally connected varieties (Kollár's conjecture)
April 24 Harris (Harvard), Kleiman, Miller (MIT) MIT Open problems in algebraic geometry
May 1 David Eisenbud (MSRI, Berkeley) Harvard Chow forms, old and new
May 8 William Fulton (Michigan) MIT Quantum Schubert calculus (also will give Colloq on May 10)

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