Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Fall, 2008

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
3088 East Hall

The seminar normally meets from 4:10 to about 6:00 pm, with a break around 5 pm. We encourage speakers to make the first hour of each talk expository and introductory in nature, so that this part of the seminar will be accessible to graduate students and postdocs in other fields. Details and technicalities are welcome (but not required!) after the break.

For more information, contact Rob Lazarsfeld ( rlaz@umich.edu ) .

Seminar Schedule --- Fall, 2008

Sept. 10, 2008	Jason Starr (Stony Brook)	Rational simple connectedness and Serre's "Conjecture II"
Fri. Sept. 12, 2008 3:00 - 4:00 3088 EH	Brian Conrad (Stanford)	Pseudo-reductive groups
Sept. 17, 2008	Joel Kamnitzer (Toronto)	Equivalences of derived categories from geometric sl_2 actions
Sept. 24, 2008	Xinyi Yuan (IAS)	Positivity in arithmetic geometry
Oct. 1, 2008	Radu Laza (UMich)	Triangulations of the sphere and degenerations of K3 surfaces
Mon. Oct. 6, 2008 Special Algebraic Geometry Seminar 12:00 noon 4096 EH	János Kollár (Princeton)	Log canonical implies Du Bois
Tues. Oct. 7, 2008 Special General Audience Talk 1:00 pm 2866 EH	János Kollár (Princeton)	Cremona transformations and homeomorphisms of topological surfaces
Oct. 8, 2008	Matthew Simpson U Mich	Moduli Spaces of Weighted Conics
Oct. 15, 2008	Brendan Hassett (Rice)	Rational curves on holomorphic symplectic varieties
Sat. Oct. 18 -- Sun Oct 19 UM-OSU-UIC Workshop Workshop Web Page Sat. Oct 18, 2008 11:30 am -- 12:30 pm 2:30 pm -- 3:30 pm 5:00 pm -- 6:00 pm Sun. Oct. 19, 2008 10:30 am -- 11:30 am	Davesh Maulkik Andrew Snowden Marc Levine Christian Schnell	Extending normal functions without singularities
Oct. 22, 2008	Wing Suet Li (Georgia Tech)	Horn inequalities for finite von Neumann algebras
Thursday, Oct 30 2:00 - 3:00 pm 3096 EH 3:00 - 4:00 pm 3866 EH	Mihai Paun (Nancy)	Extension of pluricanonical forms and non-vanishing
Nov. 5, 2008	Stein Stromme (Bergen, visiting U Mich)	1-skeleta and the n! ring
Nov. 12, 2008	Lawrence Ein (UIC, visiting U Mich)	Extension theorems
Nov. 19, 2008	Zewit Lectures	.
Nov. 26, 2008	No Seminar	Thanksgiving
Dec. 3, 2008	on hold	.
Dec. 10, 2008	Sam Payne (Stanford)	Tropicalization and nonarchimedean analytification

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