Algebraic Geometry Seminar --- Fall, 2005

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 2006

Jan. 11, 2006	.	.
Jan. 18, 2006	Sabin Cautis Harvard	Extending Families of Curves
Jan. 25, 2006	Fabrizio Catanese Univ. Bayreuth visiting U. Mich.	Fibrations of curves of low genus and applications
Feb. 1, 2006	Oren Ben-Basset U. Penn	Twisting equivalences between derived categories
Feb. 8, 2006	Ron Donagi U Penn	Standard Models for string theory via algebraic geometry
Feb. 15, 2006	Jonathan Wahl UNC	Universal abelian coverings of complex surface singularities
Thursday Feb. 16, 2006 2:00 - 3:00 pm	Manuel Blickle Univ. Essen	Local cohomology invariants in terms of etale cohomolgy
Feb. 22, 2006	Paolo Cascini UCSB	K\"ahler-Ricci Flow and the Minimal Model Program for Projective Varieties
March 1, 2006	Winter Break	No Seminar
March 8, 2006	Martin Olsson U. Texas	Compactifying the moduli space of abelian varieties
March 15, 2006	Alastair Craw SUNY Stony Brook	Toric varieties are fine moduli spaces
March 22, 2006	Noam Elkies Harvard Univ.	K3 and elliptic surfaces of high rank over Q
March 29, 2006	Alessio Corti Imperial College	Quantum cohomology of Fano simplicial toric stacks
April 5, 2006	Rares Rasdeaconu U. Mich.	On projective manifolds of negative Kodaira dimension
April 12, 2006	Sandor Kovacs U. Washington	Families of varieties of general type
Thurs. April 13 to Wed. April 19 Web Page	Paul Biran Tel-Aviv University	Linear systems, singularities, and Lagrangian cycles
Wed. April 19 4:30 -- 5:30 pm	Tommaso de Fernex Univ. of Utah	Adjunction beyond thresholds and birational rigidity of hypersurfaces
Fri. April 21 Student Presentations	Giancarlo Urzua 10:10 -- 10:40 Kyungyong Lee 10:45 -- 11:15 Bryden Cais 11:20 -- 11:50 Dave Anderson 11:55 -- 12:25	Compact Riemann surfaces with a Z/p action and genus at most p Unexpected local algebraic property of multiplier ideals Compatibilities in p-adic cohomology Double Schubert polynomials
Mon. April 24 to Wed. April 26	Special Workshop: Moduli space of curves and Gromov--Witten Theory	Workshop Web Page

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