Algebraic geometry talks: Fall 2009

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

August 25 no meeting
August 27
colloquium
Anthony Várilly-Alvarado, Rice Rational points on rational surfaces
September 1 Anthony Várilly-Alvarado, Rice Weak approximation on del Pezzo surfaces of degree 1
September 8 Anthony Várilly-Alvarado, Rice Weak approximation on del Pezzo surfaces of degree 1 (II)
September 10
colloquium
Joe Harris, Harvard The Interpolation Problem
September 15 Evan Bullock, Rice Subcanonical points on algebraic curves
September 22 Daniel Erman, Berkeley Deformations of 0-dimensional Schemes
September 29 Fred van der Wyck, Harvard Equisingular moduli of singular curves
October 6
October 13 Fall break no meeting
October 20 Maksym Fedorchuk, Columbia Spaces of hyperelliptic curves with simple singularities
October 27 Brendan Hassett, Rice Rational curves on K3 surfaces
November 3 Shuijing Li, Rice Del Pezzo surfaces over finite fields with few rational points
November 10 Wei Ho, Harvard Orbit Parametrizations of Curves
November 17 Jarek Buczyn'ski, Texas A&M Maps of toric varieties in homogeneous coordinates
November 19
colloquium
Gordon Heier, UH On uniformly effective boundedness of Shafarevich Conjecture type
November 23
colloquium
Andrew Putman, MIT The Picard Group of the Moduli Space of Curves with Level Structures
November 24
colloquium
Amanda Folsom, Wisconsin Kac-Wakimoto Characters and Mock Theta Functions
December 1

Talks from the Fall 2008 semester