Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar
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| 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) |