The University of Michigan Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Fridays, 3:10-4:00pm, 3866 East Hall

Welcome! This study seminar serves both as the Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar and a Supplement to the Math 732 course on Intersection Theory being taught by Professor Fulton. Please feel free to email Jose Gonzalez (jgonza@umich.edu) with questions/comments/suggestions.

Winter 2010

Date Speaker Title
January 15
Planning meeting
January 22 Victor Lozovanu
The volume function
January 29 Zhixian Zhu
The double point formula
February 5 Jesse Kass
On Chow rings of blow ups
February 12 Mihai Fulger
Young person's guide to canonical singularities 1
February 19 Jose Gonzalez
Young person's guide to canonical singularities 2
February 26 Eugene Eisenstein
On weighted projective spaces
March 5 SPRING BREAK
SPRING BREAK
March 12 Zhixian Zhu
The Chow rings of smooth projective toric varieties
March 19 Eugene Eisenstein
An invitation to deformation theory 1
March 26 No meeting
Spring Lectures in Algebraic Geometry: Marc Levine (University of Duisberg-Essen)
Motivic unstable homotopy theory
April 2 Jose Gonzalez
An invitation to equivariant intersection theory 1
April 9 Mihai Fulger
An invitation to equivariant intersection theory 2
April 16 No meeting
Special seminar: Jonathan Wahl (UNC)
Q-homology disk smoothing of complex surface singularities
April 22 Victor Lozovanu
An invitation to deformation theory 2

Past semesters:
Fall 2009   Student algebraic geometry seminar   Algebraic geometry seminar