Algebraic geometry talks: Spring 2007

The Algebraic Geometry/Ergodic Theory Seminar
Tuesdays at 4:00 in Herman Brown 227

January 8 Dawei Chen, Harvard Mori's program for the Kontsevich moduli space
January 15 Jonathan Chaika, Rice Universal ranges for minimal sequences
January 15
5:00PM
Michael Schein, Hebrew University The Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand resolution and weights in Serre's conjecture for n-dimensional Galois representations
January 22
January 29 no meeting
February 5 David Ralston, Rice Continued Fractions and Heavy Sequences
February 6
Wednesday
Fumitoshi Sato Deformation of a smooth Deligne-Mumford stack via differential graded Lie algebra
February 12 Eric Brussel, Emory The Brauer group of the function field of a 2-dimensional surface
February 19 Jarod Alper, Stanford Good moduli spaces for Artin stacks
February 25, 26, and 28 Davesh Maulik, Columbia and CMI Bochner Lectures
Gromov-Witten theory and Noether-Lefschetz theory for K3 surfaces
March 4 no meeting spring break
March 11 Yunfeng Jiang, University of Utah Donaldson-Thomas invariants via L_\infty-algebras
March 18 Kevin Tucker, University of Michigan Jumping numbers of algebraic surfaces
March 25 Rina Anno, Harvard Categorifications of affine tangles
April 1 Xiahong Jia, Rice Axial moving planes and singularities of rational space curves
April 8 no meeting no meeting
April 10
Thursday
Christopher Hacon, Utah Finite generation of canonical rings
April 11-13 Texas Algebraic Geometry Seminar Program and schedule
April 15 Sabin Cautis, Rice Geometric McKay correspondence in dimension three
April 22 Special colloquium no meeting

Talks from the Fall 2007 semester