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
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Dec. 10, 2008

Sam Payne
(Stanford)

Tropicalization and nonarchimedean analytification


Past Seminars --

 Fall 2000

 Winter 2001

 Fall 2001

Winter 2002

Fall 2002

Winter 2003

Fall 2003

Winter 2004

Fall 2004

Winter 2005

Fall 2005

Winter 2006

Fall 2006

Winter 2007

Fall 2007

Winter 2008