Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar
1999-2000: Tuesdays 3:00-4:00


The Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar will alternate between MIT (Room 2-147 starting Feb. 15) and Harvard (Room 507) on Tuesdays.

Schedule of upcoming talks:

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

September 14 János Kollár (Princeton) MIT Rational varieties over local fields
September 21 Klaus Hulek (Hannover) Harvard Geometry of Siegel modular varieties
September 28 Nick Katz (Princeton) MIT What we don't know about L-functions
October 5 Igor Dolgachev (Michigan) Harvard Rational curves of negative self-intersection on surfaces
October 12 Dan Abramovich (Boston University) MIT The unreasonable effectiveness of toric geometry
October 19 Rahul Pandharipande (Caltech) Harvard Hodge integrals, partition matrices, and the lambda_g conjecture
October 26 Tony Pantev (U Penn) MIT Bundles on non-simply connected Calabi-Yaus
November 2 J.M. Landsberg (Toulouse) Harvard Geometric constructions of simple Lie algebras and Freudenthal's magic square
November 9 Ziv Ran (UC Riverside) MIT Differential operators and boundedness of Fano varieties
November 16 Steve Kleiman (MIT) Harvard Those 17,601,000 singular rational curves on the generic quintic threefold
November 23 Marc Levine (Northeastern) MIT The Steinberg curve, and holomorphically indetectable cycles
November 30 Lucia Caporaso (MIT) Harvard Curves over function fields: Uniformity issues
December 7 Machiel van Frankenhuyzen (UC Riverside) MIT ABC implies Vojta's height inequality for curves
December 14 Brendan Hassett (Chicago) Harvard Ample divisors on holomorphic symplectic fourfolds
February 1 Fedor Bogomolov (Courant) MIT Generalized Szpiro Inequality
February 8 Angelo Vistoli (Bologna) Harvard Compactifying the space of stable maps
February 15 Bernd Sturmfels (Berkeley) MIT Room 2-147 Rational hypergeometric functions
February 22 Dale Cutkosky (Missouri and Northeastern) Harvard Monomialization of morphisms
February 29 Bill Messing (Minnesota) MIT Room 2-147 Combinatorial differential forms
March 7 Daniel Allcock (Harvard) Harvard Modular forms and moduli of cubic surfaces
March 14 Yuri Tschinkel (UIC, Princeton) MIT Equivariant compactifications of algebraic groups
March 21 Brian Conrad (Harvard) Harvard Wild ramification and deformation rings
March 28 Jason Starr (Harvard) MIT Rational curves on hypersurfaces
April 4 J.-P. Serre (College de France) Harvard Independence of l-adic representations of motives
April 11 Mike Hopkins (MIT) MIT The Hopf fibration and a congruence of Borcherds
April 18 Bert van Geemen (Pavia) Harvard Half twists of Hodge structures with CM
April 25 Joe Harris (Harvard) MIT Rationality, unirationality, and rational connectivity
May 2 Ravi Vakil (MIT) Harvard Covers of the sphere and the moduli space of curves
May 9 Andreas Gathmann (Harvard) MIT Absolute and relative Gromov-Witten invariants


This web page is maintained by Ravi Vakil; it was shamelessly copied from Pasha Belorousski's page at the University of Michigan.
Last updated November 8.