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 --- Winter, 2008


Jan. 9, 2008




4:00 - 5:00






5:00 - 6:00





Danny Gillam
(Columbia)




Jonathan Wise
(Brown)








The Crepant Resolution Conjecture for an involution of 3-flags




Enumerative geometry of hyperelliptic
curves in CP^2


Jan. 16, 2008



4:00 - 5:00



5:00 - 6:00




Gueorgui Todorov
(Utah)


Dawei Chen
(Harvard)

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Pluricanonical maps on threefolds


Mori's program for the Kontsevich moduli space


Jan. 23, 2008


4:00 - 5:00



5:00 - 6:00





Jarod Alper
(Stanford)


Chanyang Xu
(Princeton)




Good moduli spaces for Artin stacks


Degenerations of rationally connected varieties


Mon. Jan 28, 2008

4:00 - 6:00 pm



Joe Harris
(Harvard)


Jan. 30, 2008

Brian Conrad
(U. Mich.)


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Feb. 6, 2008

Ziwet Lectures

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Feb. 13, 2008

Bumsig Kim
(KIAS)

A compactification of the space of maps from curves

Feb. 20, 2008


Amanda Knecht
(U. Mich.)

Weak approximation and strong rational connectivity

Feb. 27, 2008

Winter Break


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March 4 - 7, 2008



 Ravi Vakil
(Stanford Univ.)


Spring lectures in algebraic geometry

March 12, 2008

Johannes Nicaise
(Univ. Lille 1)

Complex singularities and non-archimedean
geometry

March 19, 2008

Harry Tamvakis
(Univ. of Maryland)

A Giambelli formula for isotropic Grassmannians


March 26, 2008

Jim Borger
(Australian National Univ. and Univ. of Chicago)

Witt vectors, Lambda-rings, and absolute algebraic geometry



April 2, 2008


David Smyth
(Harvard)


New modular compactifications of M_{1,n}


April 9, 2008

Alfred Chen
(NTU and Univ of Utah)

On birational geometry of threefolds with terminal singularities.


April 16, 2008


Paolo Cascini
(UCSB)

On the Minimal Model Program



Monday April 21, 2008



9:10 am






9:40 am





10:10 am




10:40 am






11:10 am





11:40 am 


Special Student Talks




Brian Jurgelewicz






Shin-Yao Jow 





Eugene Eisenstein




Kevin Tucker






Paul Johnson





Alan Stapledon


4088 EH




Around the McKay correspondence




Mori dream spaces and the weak Lefschetz principle for Nef cones


A characteristic zero perspective on some results ot S. Takagi


Jumping numbers on algebraic surfaces with rational singularities



Hurwitz numbers: the big picture and a small proof



Weighted Erhart theory and orbifold  cohomology



Wed. April 23, 2008
4:00 - 6:00 pm
3088 EH


David Rydh
(KTH, visiting U of M)





Families of cycles and the Chow scheme

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