Algebraic geometry talks: Fall 2007

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

August 28 Matthew Simpson, Rice Algebraic families of Riemann surfaces and topological invariants
September 4 Stefan Kebekus, Köln Complex contact manifolds
September 11 David Smyth, Harvard Modular Contractions of M0,n
September 18 no meeting
September 21
Thursday colloquium
Parimala Raman, Emory Isotropy of quadratic forms over function fields of p-adic curves
September 25 Sabin Cautis, Rice The Abelian Monodromy Extension Property
October 2 Daniel Krashen, U. Penn/Yale Galois subfields of division algebras
October 9 no meeting
October 16 Fall break no meeting
October 23 Ana-Maria Castravet, University of Arizona Mori Dream Spaces and $\barM_{0,n}$
October 30 Porter Lectures no meeting
November 6
November 13 Rebecca Lehman, Tulane Brill-Noether with Movable Ramification
November 13, 5:15PM Lewis Bowen, Hawaii Generalized Unipotent Subgroups in Word Hyperbolic Groups
November 15, 5:15PM Erwan Lanneau, Marseille Rauzy-Veech-Zorich Induction for Quadratic Differentials
November 19
noon, HB 427
Samit Dasgupta (Harvard) A p-adic approach to Hilbert's 12th problem
November 20 Eric Katz, U.T. Austin The j-invariant of a plane tropical cubic
November 27 Stefano Isola (Università di Camerino) Generalized Farey trees, transfer operators and phase transitions
December 4 Alexey Glutsyuk, ENS-Lyon
Ilya Vyugin, Lomonosov University, Moscow
On density of horospheres in dynamical laminations
On the inverse monodromy problems
December 5
Wednesday
Dragos Oprea, Stanford Generalized Theta Functions

*To be confirmed

Talks from the Spring 2007 semester