Algebraic Geometry Working Seminar, Fall 2007

 Mondays and Fridays at 2:00-3:00 pm  in Math453

  Participants: Kelly McKinnie Sabin CautisShuijing Li, Matt Simpson, Fei Xu, Bradley Duesler, Christian Bruun, Ryan Scott .

Date

Speaker

Subject

May 8

Matt Simpson

Flips and Flops

May 10

Shuijing Li

Geometric Invariant Theory

May 22,24,29

 Bradley Duesler

Higher dimensional complex tori

May 31, June 5

Fei Xu

Complex manifolds

September 10,17,24

Bradley Duesler

Rational curves

September 28

Kelly McKinnie

An introduction to Galois Cohomology and the residue map.

October 5, 12

Kelly McKinnie

Galois Cohomology

October 8

Shuijing Li

Unirationality of cubic hypersurfaces

October 15

 Bradley Duesler

Rationally connected varieties over Q_{p}

October 26,29,

Shuijing Li

Unirationality of cubic hypersurfaces

November 7

Matt Simpson

Chow variety

November 14

Matt Simpson

Chow quotient

November 17 

Fei Xu

TBA

November 26

Matt Simpson

TBA

November 30, 

Kelly McKinnie

TBA

 Algebraic Geometry Working Seminar, spring 2008

 Mondays and Fridays at 2:00-3:00 pm in Math453

 Participants: Kelly McKinnie Sabin CautisShuijing Li, Matt Simpson, Fei Xu, Bradley Duesler, Christian Bruun, Ryan Scott .

 

Date

Speaker

Subject

 Jan 18th, Feb 1st

 Bradley Duesler

 Rational points on cubic surfaces

 Feb 15th

 Shuijing Li

 Jano Kollar’s notes

on rational curves

 Feb 22nd

 Bradley Duesler

 Computations about chern classes

 Feb 29th

 Bradley Duesler

 

 March 7th

 Spring break

 

 March 14th

 Kelley McKinnie