Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Tuesdays 3--4 pm, EH 3088 (unless otherwise noted)


The seminar is run by students in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry. If you would like to be added to the seminar mailing list, send an e-mail to Shin Yao Jow or Eugene Eisenstein.

Winter Semester Talks 2008

This term we will be learning about abelian varieties, especially in characteristic zero. Our references will be: O. Debarre, Complex tori and abelian varieties, D. Mumford, Abelian varieties.

Date Speaker Title (click for abstract)
1/08/08 No Speaker Organisational Meeting
1/15/08 Shin-Yao Jow Line bundles on complex tori [M, 2] Notes
1/22/08 Kevin Tucker Theta functions [D, 4.1, 4.3] Slides Handout
1/29/08 Kyle Hoffman Riemann conditions of algebraizability, Riemann-Roch for tori [D, 6.1, 6.2] Notes
2/5/08 Victor Lozovanu The Lefschetz theorem
2/12/08 Alan Stapledon Duality of complex tori
2/19/08 Christian Lundkvist Sections of line bundles, principal polarization, theta divisors
4/01/08 Geordie Williamson The hunt for torsion in intersection cohomology Abstract
04/15/08 Kyle Ormsby Introduction to algebraic K-theory

List of previous talks, going back to Winter 1999.

UM Algebraic Geometry Seminar.