Past Talks in Algebraic Geometry
Winter 1999

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

January 13 AG Karen Smith
(U of M)
Basic Notions: The Cartier Isomorphism.
January 20 AG Mark de Cataldo
(Harvard)
The Decomposition Theorem : Hilbert schemes and Heisenberg algebras.
January 27 AG Y. Kachi
(John Hopkins)
Flips, numerical projective spaces, and the index theorem.
February 3 AG Adam Logan
(Harvard)
Moduli of curves with marked points.
February 10 AG Sándor Kovács
(U of C)
Rational Singularities.
February 17 AG Pasha Belorousski
(U of M)
Intermediate Notions: Hilbert Schemes of Points of Surfaces.
February 22
4-6 pm
"Physics"
4088 EH
David Ben-Zvi
(Harvard)
Spectral Curves, Opers and Integrable Systems.
February 23
1-2 pm
Combin.
3866 EH
Anders Buch
(U of C)
Formulas for Degeneracy Loci.
February 24 AG No talk See below.
February 24
4 pm
Phys. Colloq.
340 WH
Brian Greene
(Columbia)
String theory and the fabric of spacetime.
March 3 AG No Talk Spring Break!
March 9
1-2 pm
Combin.
3866 EH
Anders Buch
(U of C)
Formulas for Degeneracy Loci: II.
March 10
3-4 pm
Arithm. Geom.
3866 EH
Dan Burns
(U of M)
Stable Bundles and Integrable Systems.
March 10 AG Kalle Karu
(BU)
Semistable Reduction in Characteristic Zero<\ /A>.
March 17 AG Vladimir Baranovsky
(U of C)
Moduli of Sheaves on Surfaces and the Action of the Oscillator Algebra.
March 23
Tu, 1-2
Combin.
3866 EH
Bernd Sturmfels
(Berkeley)
Resonant hypergeometric series.
March 23
Tu, 4-5
Colloquim
1360 EH
Bernd Sturmfels
(Berkeley)
Cellular Resolutions in Combinatorial Commutative Algebra.
March 24 AG Ravi Vakil
(MIT)
Twelve Points on the Projective Line.
March 29
Mon, 3-5
Num. Thy
4096 EH
Brian Conrad
(Harvard)
Twisted Galois Representations and Elliptic Curves.
March 30
Tu, 3-4
Diff.Geom.
1068 EH
J.-P. Demailly
(Grenoble)
On the hard Lefschetz theorem for pseudo-effective line bundles.
March 31
Wed, 3-4
Arithm.Geom.
3866 EH
Matthew Emerton
(U of M)
The Geometric Langlands Construction.
March 31 AG J.-P. Demailly
(Grenoble)
Hyperbolicity of generic surfaces of large degree in P^3.
April 6
Tu, 4-5
Colloq.
1360 EH
Dennis Gaitsgory
(IAS)
Geometric Construction of Central Elements in the Affine Hecke Algebra.
April 7
Wed, 3-4
Ar.Geom.
3866 EH
Dennis Gaitsgory
(IAS)
Local-to-Global Methods of Construction of Automorphic D-Modules.
April 7 AG Vangelis Mouroukos
(U of C)
Cohomological Connectivity and Algebraic Cycles.
April 12
Mon, 4-5
"Physics"
4088 EH
Pasha Belorousski
(U of M)
Mumford-Polyakov measure on the moduli space of algebraic curves.
April 14 AG De-Qi Zhang
(Singapore Nat.Univ.)
Fano varieties with mild singularities, Cartier index and fundamental group.
April 21 AG A. Barvinok
(U of M)
Quadratic convexity.


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