Algebraic Geometry Seminar --- Fall, 2003

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
3088 East Hall

The seminar normally meets from 4:10 to about 6:00 pm, with a break around 5 pm. We encourage speakers to make the first hour of each talk expository and introductory in nature, so that this part of the seminar will be accessible to graduate students and postdocs in other fields. Details and technicalities are welcome (but not required!) after the break.

For more information, contact Rob Lazarsfeld ( rlaz@umich.edu ) .

Seminar Schedule --- Winter 2005

Jan. 12, 2005	No seminar	.
Jan. 19, 2005	Renzo Cavaleri U. Utah	Topological Quantum Field Theories, Admissible Covers, and a Deformation of the Class Algebra of the Symmetric group
Jan. 26, 2005	Deepee Khosla Harvard	Divisors on Moduli Spaces of Curves: New Techniques for Calculation
Feb. 2, 2005	Roy Skjelnes visiting U. Mich.	Hilbert scheme compactification of the configuration space of points
Feb. 9, 2005	Maryam Mirzakhani Clay Institute	Intersection theory on the moduli space of curves and simple geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces
Feb. 16, 2005	Alex Yong Berkeley	On Smoothness and Gorensteinness of Schubert varieties
Feb. 23, 2005	Igor Dolgachev U. Mich.	Life in characteristic p
March 2, 2005	No seminar	Winter break
March 9, 2005	Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk Purdue Univ.	Simple Hironaka Resolution
March 16, 2005	Kalle Karu UBC	Toric residue mirror conjecture
March 23, 2005	Mark Goresky IAS	Moduli spaces of abelian varieties
Thurs. March 24, 2005 4-6 pm 3088 EH	Lev Borisov U. Wisc.	Modular symbols and logarithmic derivatives of the theta function
March 30, 2005	Holger Brenner Sheffield	Tight closure and positivity
Sat. and Sun, April 2 and 3.	U. Mich. -- OSU workshop	In Columbus
April 6, 2005	Julius Ross Columbia	.
April 13, 2005	Nick Shephard-Barron Cambridge	.
April 18 - 22	Burt Totaro Cambridge	Lectures on the topology of algebraic varieties

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