Algebraic geometry talks: Fall 2008

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  supported by the Edgar J. Stulken Fund
Tuesdays at 4:00 in Herman Brown 227

August 26 no meeting
September 2 Susan Margulies, Rice (CAAM) Computer Algebra, Combinatorics, and Complexity:
Hilbert's Nullstellensatz and NP-complete Problems
September 9
Special student lecture
Daniel Glasscock, Rice Wilf Equivalence in the Generalized Factor Order
September 16
No meeting due to hurricane Rescheduled to October 21
September 19
Friday
Sabin Cautis, Rice Equivalences from geometric sl_2 actions
September 23
Ergodic theory seminar
Alexander Soshnikov On the distribution of eigenvalues of large random matrices at the edges of the spectrum
September 26
Friday at 4PM
Sean Keel, UT Austin Mumford, Mori and Morrison: moduli spaces, birational geometry and mirror symmetry
September 30 Elizabeth Dan-Cohen, Rice Parabolic subalgebras of finitary Lie algebras
October 7
Special Lecture
Tuncay Aktosun, UT Arlington Inverse Problems and Applications
October 9
Colloquium
Mirela Ciperiani, Columbia Genus one curves over the rationals
October 14 Fall break no meeting
October 21 Pramod Achar, LSU Introduction to staggered sheaves
October 23
Thursday colloquium
Alina Marian, UIC Intersections on moduli spaces of bundles and Grassmannian TQFTs
October 28 Mihnea Popa, UIC Exterior algebra and the cohomology of compact Kaehler manifolds
October 28, 5:15PM
Ergodic Theory Seminar
Francesco Cellarosi, Princeton The geometry of trigonometric sums and dynamics
November 4 Travis Schedler, MIT/AIM Categorical algebraic geometry and associative algebras
November 11
8PM RMC
Andrew Wiles, Princeton Presidential lecture series
November 13
Thursday, 2:30PM
Radu Laza, Michigan Triangulations of the sphere and degenerations of K3 surfaces
November 18 Adrian Wadsworth, UCSD Generalized Clifford Algebras and Relative Brauer Groups for Genus 1 Curves
November 18, 5:15PM
Ergodic theory seminar
Ilya Shkredov, Moscow State Two-dimensional configurations in dense sets
November 25 No meeting
December 1
Monday, 4:00PM
Michael Zieve, IAS Polynomial mappings
December 2, 4:00PM
Ergodic theory seminar
Alexey Glutsyuk, ENS Lyon Unique ergodicity of horocyclic foliations revisited
December 2, 5:15PM
Ergodic theory seminar
Vadim Gorin, Independent Univ. Moscow Disjointness of representations arising in harmonic analysis on the infinite-dimensional unitary group
December 9 John Meth, U.T. Austin Subspaces of the Norm hypersurface
December 12
Friday at 4PM in HB 453
Martin Olsson, Berkeley Constructing integral models for moduli spaces of G-torsor

*denotes to be confirmed

Talks from the Spring 2008 semester