Algebraic geometry talks

The Computational Algebraic Geometry Seminar
meets Mondays, 3:00PM, in Herman Brown 453
The working Algebraic Geometry Seminar
meets Wednesdays, 3:00PM, in Herman Brown 453

January 20, 2004, 4:00PM Special colloquium

Jordan Ellenberg, Princeton
Galois representations on Q-curves and solutions to A^4 + B^2 = C^p

January 26, 2004

Ron Goldman, Rice University
Algebraic geometry and geometric modeling I

January 28, 2004

Jun Zhang, Rice University
Kirwan Stratification and Blow-up of Quotients in Geometric Invariant Theory I

February 9, 2004

Ron Goldman, Rice University
Algebraic geometry and geometric modeling II

February 16, 2004 Special colloquium, at 4:00PM

Edray Goins, Caltech
The Modularity of Wildly Ramified Galois Representations

March 10, 2004 Working seminar, at 3:00PM

James Spencer, Rice
The orbifold cohomology of a toric Deligne-Mumford stack (after Borisov-Chen-Smith)

March 23, 2004 Special algebraic geometry seminar, at 3:00PM

Scott Nollet, Texas Christian University
Hilbert schemes of quartic curves

March 24, 2004 Geometry and analysis seminar, at 4:00PM

Eugene Tevelev, U.T. Austin
Higher-dimensional versions of stable rational curves

April 22, 2004 Colloquium, at 4:00PM

Martin Olsson, MIT
Monodromy and algebraic stacks

April 23, 2004 Special algebraic geometry seminar, at 4:00PM

Martin Olsson, MIT
Log geometry and moduli of K3 surfaces

Talks from the Fall 2003 semester