Past Talks in Algebraic Geometry
Fall 1999

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

September 15
Wed, 4-6 pm
AG Yujiro Kawamata
(U of Tokyo)
The adjunction of canonical divisors.
September 22
Wed, 4-6 pm
AG Ana Bravo
(U of M visitor)
Smoothness and arithmetical schemes.
September 29
Wed, 4-6 pm
AG E. Mouroukos
(U of M)
Arithmetic Hodge Structures and Higher Abel-Jacobi Maps (After Green, Asakura and Saito).
October 6
Wed, 4-6 pm
AG Gary Kennedy
(U of M visitor)
Contact formulas for rational plane curves.
October 11
Mon, 4-5 pm
Gp/Lie Thy
3088 EH
Ching-Li Chai
(U Penn)
Congruence of Neron models: solution to a problem of Gross and Prasad.
October 11
Mon, 5-6 pm
Gp/Lie Thy
3088 EH
Moshe Jarden
(Tel Aviv U)
Torsion on Abelian Varieties over Large Algebraic Fields.
October 12
Tue, 2-3 pm
Gauge Thy
3096 EH
Conan Leung
(UMN)
Rational curves on Calabi-Yau manifolds.
October 13
Wed, 4-6 pm
AG Alex Ulyanov
(Penn State)
Polydiagonal Compactification of Configuration Spaces.
October 20
Wed, 4-5 pm
AG Paul Feehan
Witten's conjecture and gluing PU(2) monopoles.
October 27
Wed, 4-6 pm
AG Jason Starr
(Harvard)
Rational Curves on Hypersurfaces in P^n.
November 2
Tue, 2:40-4
Geometry
B844 EH
Eleny Ionel
(Univ. of Wisc.)
Gromov-Witten Invariants of Symplectic Sums and Applications.
November 3
Wed, 4-6 pm
AG Linda Chen
(U of M visitor)
Quantum cohomology of flag manifolds.
November 9
Tue, 4-5 pm
Colloq.
1360 EH
Michael Duff
(UM Physics)
A Layman's Guide to M-Theory.
November 10
Wed, 4-6 pm
AG Martin Sombra
(IAS)
Effective Nullstellensatz, Division Forumlas, and All That.
November 17
Wed, 4-6 pm
AG Dennis Gaitsgory
(Harvard)
The appearance of the Langlands dual group (2nd of 3 Keeler lectures).
November 22
Mon, 4-6 pm
Gp/Lie Thy
3088 EH
Sasha Orlik
(U of Cologne)
The cohomology of period domains over finite fields.
November 24
Wed, 4-6 pm
No seminar
(Thanksgiving)
December 1
Wed, 4-6 pm
AG Gerald Höhn
(U Freiburg)
Second Quantized Elliptic Genera and Borcherds Lifts.
December 8
Wed, 4-6 pm
AG Lucia Caporaso
(Harvard)
Uniformity properties of curves over function fields.
December 9
Thu, 3 pm
Colloq.
1360 EH
David Mumford
(Brown)
Some experiences with applied math -- or "How to wear two hats on one head".


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