Algebraic geometry talks: Spring 2013

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

organized by Brian Lehmann, Anthony Várilly-Alvarado, and Brendan Hassett

January 7
Monday
Daniel Erman, Michigan Equations, syzygies, and vector bundles
January 8 Xuanyu Pan, Columbia Geometry of moduli space of rational curves on complete intersections
January 15 Yu-Jong Tzeng, Harvard Enumerative Geometry: from Classical to Modern
January 22 no meeting
January 29 Brendan Hassett, Rice Projective and birational geometry of Bridgeland moduli spaces, after Bayer and Macri
February 5 Anthony Várilly-Alvarado, Rice On the unirationality of del Pezzo surfaces of degree 2
February 12 Brendan Hassett, Rice Examples of stability and wall crossings for Hilbert schemes, after Bayer and Macri
February 19 Anna Kazanova, U. Mass Amherst Degenerations of Godeaux surfaces and exceptional vector bundles
February 26 spring break no meeting
March 5 Nicolas Addington, Duke Hodge theory and dervied categories of cubic fourfolds
March 12*
March 19 Melody Chan, Harvard Combinatorics of the tropical moduli space of curves and Outer space
March 20
Wednesday
John Calabrese, Oxford Donaldson-Thomas invariants and birational transformations
March 26 Tomer Schlank, MIT Etale Homotopy and Diophantine Equations
April 2 Morgan Brown, U. Michigan The McKay correspondence via tilting
April 5-7 Texas Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Austin
April 9 Evgeny Mayanskiy, Penn State An asymptotic Mukai model of M6
April 10
Wednesday
Zhiyuan Li, Stanford Picard groups on Moduli space of K3 surfaces
April 16
April 23 Zhiyu Tian, CalTech Weak approximation for cubic hypersurfaces

Talks from the Fall 2012 semester