Algebraic geometry talks: Fall 2005

The Algebraic Geometry Seminar meets Tuesdays at 4:00 in Herman Brown 227

August 23 Matt Papanikolas, Texas A&M Tannakian Galois groups and transcendence in positive characteristic
August 25
Thursday Colloquium
Daniel Allcock, U.T. Austin Infinitely many hyperbolic reflection groups
August 30 Mike Wolf Cusps and the family hyperbolic metric, after Wolpert
September 6 Nero Budur, Johns Hopkins Algebraic differential equations and singularities of varieties
September 13 Rachel Pries, Colorado State Moduli spaces for wildly ramified covers
September 15
Thursday Colloquium
J.M. Landsberg, Texas A&M Geometry and the complexity of matrix multiplication
September 20 Maryam Mirzakhani
Princeton/Clay
Bochner Lecture
September 27 --- ---
September 29
Wolfe lecture
Yuri Tschinkel, Courant/Göttingen Height Zeta Functions
October 4 Julius Ross, Columbia Stability of Polarized Varieties
October 11 No meeting Fall break
October 18 Deepee Khosla, U.T. Austin Moduli spaces of curves with linear series and the Slope Conjecture
October 25 Dragos Oprea On the intersection theory of the moduli space of rank 2 bundles
October 26
Wednesday GA seminar
Elham Izadi, U. Georgia Some remarks on the Hodge conjecture for abelian varieties
November 1 -- Bochner lecture (D. Auroux)
November 3
Thursday Colloquium
Lauren Williams (Berkeley) Total positivity for real flag varieties
November 7, HB 423 at 2
Computational algebraic geometry
Bernard Mourrain, INRIA (Nice) Triangulation of Implicit Surfaces
November 8, HB 423 at 9:30
Computational algebraic geometry
Rimas Krasauskas, Vilnius Rational Canal Surfaces and μ-Bases
November 8 -- Bochner lecture (D. Auroux)
November 15 Romyar Sharifi, McMaster On cup products and L-functions
November 17
Thursday Colloquium
David Harbater, University of Pennsylvania Lifting branched covers of algebraic curves
November 22 Stefan Friedl, Rice Alexander polynomials of curve complements and their singularities
November 29 Damiano Testa, Cornell Spaces of rational curves on del Pezzo surfaces
December 1, Thursday
Special Colloquium at 2:30
Jason Starr, MIT Obstructions to existence of rational points

Working seminar talks: Mondays at 2:00PM in HB 423, Wednesday at 12:00 in HB 453

Talks from the Spring 2005 semester