Working seminar, MWF 2-2:50 in HB 453
| August 29 | -- | no meeting |
| September 5 | David Swinarski, Columbia | Geometric invariant theory and moduli of pointed curves |
| September 12 | Barry Simon, Caltech | Porter Lectures |
| September 19 | Barry Simon, Caltech | Porter Lectures |
| September 26 | Daniele Arcara, St. Vincent | New Moduli Spaces for K3 Surfaces |
| October 3 | Amanda Knecht, Rice | Interpolation on Rational Surfaces |
| October 10 | Lenny Ng, Duke | Bochner Lectures |
| October 17 | no meeting | fall break |
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October 18 (Wednesday!) Geometry & Analysis |
Olivier Wittenberg, Rice | Existence problems for rational points |
| October 24 | Aaron Wootton, Portland | Determining defining equations for compact Riemann surfaces which admit non-trivial automorphisms |
| October 31 | Yitwah Cheung, SFSU | Slow divergence and Unique ergodicity |
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November 1 (Wednesday!) Geometry & Analysis |
Sabin Cautis, Rice | A Knot Invariant from Algebraic Geometry |
| November 7 | Martin Möller, Essen | Veech surfaces approached by algebro-geometric tools |
| November 14 | Matthias Schütt, Harvard | Classifying singular K3 surfaces |
| November 21 | Jayadev Athreya, Yale | Lattice points and volume growth in Teichmuller Space |
| November 28 |
Chieh-Yu Chang, Texas A&M/ National Tsing Hua University |
On algebraic relations among special zeta values in characteristic p |
| December 5 | Volodymyr Nekrashevych, Texas A&M | Thurston equivalence of topological polynomials |