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, 2009


Jan. 7, 2009


Matt DeLand

(Columbia)


Cubic hypersurfaces are rationally simply connected



Jan. 14, 2009


Ben Webster
(MIT)

Enveloping algebras and a strange duality for symplectic varieties



Jan. 21, 2009

Jesse Kass
(Harvard)


A Riemann Singularity Theorem for Singular Curves


Jan. 28, 2009

MSRI Workshop
No Seminar


Feb. 4, 2009


Yusuf Mustopa
(Stony Brook)


Cones of Divisor Classes on Symmetric Powers of Curves



Feb. 11, 2009

Jason Starr
(Stony Brook)


Keeler Lectures

Feb. 18, 2009

David Witt Nystroem
(Gotteberg)

Chebyshev functions on Okounkov bodies


Feb. 25, 2009


Winter Break


March 4, 2009


Mircea Mustata
(U. Michigan)


On the Ascending Chain Condition for log canonical thresholds


Tuesday
March 10, 2009

3088 EH

 1:00 pm



2:45 pm







Hélène Esnault
(Essen)


Eckart Viehweg
(Essen)








On abelian birational sections in char. 0


On Kobayashi geodesics in  A_g

March 11, 2009
Alexander Beilinson
(U. Chicago)

The period determinants on curves


March 18, 2009

No seminar this week
.


Tuesday March 24
1:00 - 3:00 pm

3088 EH
Aaron Bertram
(Utah)

Revisiting Reider's Theorem with Bridgeland Stability



March 25, 2009


No Seminar due to Bass DUP Lecture




April 1, 2009

Maxim Kazarian 
(Moscow)

Enumeration of multisingularities

April 8, 2009

Burt Totaro
(Cambridge Univ and MSRI)

Algebraic surfaces and hyperbolic geometry



April 15, 2009


Paltin Ionescu
(University of Bucharest)

 
 
On the geometry of defective manifolds

Tuesday April 21, 2009
4:00 - 5:00 pm
3096 EH



D. Marcousevich
(Univ. Lille)

Abel-Jacobi map for hypersurfaces and non-commutatuve Calabi-Yau's.


April 22, 2009

2:00 - 3:00 pm
Room TBA



Wim Veys
(KU Leuvin)


Zeta functions and monodromy for ideals

April 22, 2009


Thomas Peternell
(Bayreuth)

Manifolds with nef tangent bundles


Thurs., April 23, 2009

9: 00 - 11:30 am
4096 EH

Graduate Student
Presentations


9:10 am




9:40 am





10:10 am




10:40 am





11:10 am














Roland Abauf




Mihai Fulger





Jose Gonzalez 




Kevin Tucker





Kelli Talaska










Introduction to constellations 



Effective numerical classes of cycles on projective bundles over curves


On projectivizations of rank two toric vector bundles


On bounding the number of LC centers and compatibly F-split subvarieties


Planar networks and the totally nonnegative Grassmannian

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

Fall 2008