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| Date | Speaker | Title (click for abstract) |
|---|---|---|
| 9/06/07 | No Speaker | Organisational Meeting |
| 9/13/07 | Kevin Tucker | Proximity Matrices and Easy Surface Resolution Computations (Notes) |
| 9/20/07 | Eugene Eisenstein | Bend & Break (Notes) |
| 9/27/07 | Eugene Eisenstein | Fano ---> Rationally Connected (Notes) |
| 10/04/07 | Kyle Hofmann | Kodaira Vanishing (Notes) |
| 10/11/07 | Wansu Kim | An Overview of Deligne-Illusie (Notes) |
| Friday 10/12/07 EH 3096, 3:00 p.m. | Dave Anderson | Chern class formulas for G_2 degeneracy loci |
| 10/18/07 | Wansu Kim | An Overview of Deligne-Illusie 2 |
| 10/25/07 | Shin-Yao Jow | Introduction to volume functions on projective varieties |
| 11/1/07 | Dave Anderson | Severi Varieties |
| 11/8/07 | Alan Stapledon | Toric Stacks |
| 11/15/07 | Kyle Hofmann | Triangulations of Algebraic Sets (Notes) |
| 11/22/07 | No Speaker | Thanksgiving Break |
| 11/29/07 | Brian Jurgelewicz | Klein's Quartic and (2,3,7) |
| 12/6/07 | Giancarlo Urzua | Geography of Surfaces |
| Date | Speaker | Title (click for abstract) |
|---|---|---|
| 1/9/07 | No Speaker | Organisational Meeting |
| 1/16/07 | Rob Easton | Branched Group Covers and their Applications |
| 1/23/07 | Jose Gonzalez | Introduction to Toric Varieties |
| 1/30/07 | Kelli Carlson | Fans and Toric Varieties |
| 2/6/07 | Shin-Yao Jow | Random Properties of Toric Varieties |
| 2/13/07 | Kyle Hofmann | Toric Varieties and Polyhedra I |
| 2/20/07 | Brian Jurgelewicz | Line Bundles on Toric Varieties I |
| 2/27/07 | Spring Break | |
| 3/6/07 | Victor Lozovanu | Line Bundles on Toric Varieties II |
| 3/13/07 | Jose Gonzalez | Toric Varieties and Polyhedra |
| 3/20/07 | Paul "Mongoose" Johnson | Toric Varieties and GIT |
| 3/27/07 | Kevin Tucker | Multiplier Ideals of Monomial Ideals (and Toric Varieties) |
| 4/3/07 | Kevin Tucker | Multiplier Ideals of Monomial Ideals 2 |
| 4/10/07 | Alan Stapledon | Functors and Moduli Problems |
| 4/17/07 | Shin-Yao Jow | Moduli of Triangles |
| Date | Speaker | Title (click for abstract) |
|---|---|---|
| 9/5/06 | Victor Lozovanu | Ran's Proof of Zak's theorem in codimension 2 |
| 9/12/06 | Ryan Kinser | GAGA, part I |
| 9/19/06 | Kevin Tucker | GAGA, part II |
| 9/26/06 | Mark Krawitz | The connectedness theorem of Fulton and Hansen, and some applications |
| 10/3/06 | Yogesh More | The fundamental group of the complement of a plane curve |
| 10/10/06 | Fidel Jimenez | Singularities of maps to projective space |
| 10/17/06 | (Fall break) | |
| 10/24/06 | Marco Aldi (Northwestern) | Algebraic Geometry 101 and its Mirror |
| 10/31/06 | Jose Gonzalez | Zak's theorems |
| 11/7/06 | Sue Sierra | The classification of noncommutative projective planes |
| 11/14/06 | Kyungyong Lee | Introduction to Cremona transformations |
| 11/21/06 | Shin-Yao Jao | Du Val singularities |
| 11/28/06 | Brian Jurgelewicz | Abel's Theorem and Residues |
| 12/5/06 | Kyle Hofmann | A Proof of Zariski's Main Theorem, following Zariski |
| 12/12/06 | Sukmoon Huh | Cremona Transformations and Brill Noether Loci |
List of previous talks, going back to Winter 1999.
UM Algebraic Geometry Seminar.