Algebraic Geometry Seminar --- Winter, 2007

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, 2007

Jan. 10, 2007	Joe Ruskino (U. Georgia)	Equivlanece of Mirror Families constructed from toric degenerations of flag varieties
Special Talk Wed. Jan 17, 2007 1:00 - 2:00 pm	Rebecca Lehman (MIT)	Brill-Noether theorems with ramification
Jan. 17, 2007	Robert Easton (Stanford)	Branched group covers and their applications
Special Talk Thurs. Jan. 18, 2007 3:00 - 4:00 4088 E.H.	Michael Guy (U. Georgia)	Moduli of weighted stable maps and their gravitational descendants
Special Talks Fri. Jan. 19, 2007 3088 EH (Replaces birational geometry seminar) 3:00 - 4:00 4:00 - 5:00	Carl Miller (Berkeley) Gabriel Kerr (Chicago)	Etale sheaves of F_p modules on a characteristic p curve Weighted blowups and homological mirror symmetry for toric surfaces
Jan. 24, 2007 Special Colloquium 4:00 - 5:00 pm 3088 EH	Davesh Maulik (Princeton)	Gromov-Witten theory and Donaldson-Thomas theory
Jan. 31, 2007	Michael Nakamaye (U. of New Mexico)	Diophantine geometry and variation of base loci
Feb. 7, 2007	Dagen Karp (Berkeley)	Cremona, permutohedra and projective space
Feb. 14, 2007	David Lehavi (U. Mich)	There are no projective surfaces in M_4
Feb. 21, 2007	Max Lieblich (Princeton)	The Brauer group of a function field and local-to-global principles
Feb. 28, 1007	No Seminar	Winter Break
March 7, 2007	Sebastien Boucksom (Jussieu)	Formal plurisubharmonic functions
March 14, 2007	Arend Bayer (Univ. Utah)	r-th root construction, weighted stable maps and orbifold quantum cohomology
March 21, 2007	Mattias Jonsson (U. Mich)	On volumes of divisors and a problem of Teissier
March 28, 2007	Sebastian Casalaina-Martin (Harvard)	Prym varieties and the Shottky problem for cubic threefolds
April 4, 2007	Alina Marian (Yale)	The moduli space of vector bundles on a curve: intersection theory and theta functions
April 11, 2007	Thomas Lam (Harvard)	Affine Schubert calculus
April 23 - April 27 Spring Lectures in Algebraic Geometry Lecture Web Page	Shigeru Mukai (RIMS)	.

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