| August 23 | Brendan Hassett, Rice | Quadric surface bundles over curves | August 30 | Anton Geraschenko, CalTech | When is a scheme a quotient of a smooth scheme by a finite group? |
September 1 Colloquium |
Brian Lehmann, Rice | Algebraic bounds on analytic multiplier ideals |
| September 6 | Brian Lehmann, Rice |
Algebraic bounds on analytic multiplier ideals continued |
| September 13 | Sho Tanimoto, NYU | Manin's conjecture and balanced line bundles |
| September 20 | Matthew Satriano, Michigan | Toric stacks |
| September 27 | no meeting | |
| October 4 | Asher Auel, Emory |
Rationality of families of intersections of quadrics and derived categories |
| October 11 | Fall break | no meeting |
| October 18 |
Falai Chen, University of Science and Technology of China |
Implicitization and parameterization of Steiner surfaces |
| October 25 | Evan Bullock, Rice | Strong irreducibility of Alexander polynomials |
| November 1 | Gordon Heier, UH | On uniformly effective birationality and the Shafarevich Conjecture over curves |
| November 8 | Xiaoran Shi, Rice/USTC | Implicitizing rational surface of revolution using mu-basis |
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November 11, noon Stulken Lecture |
Elham Izadi, U. Georgia | Torelli problems |
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November 11, 4PM Stulken Lecture |
James McKernan, MIT | Symmetries of algebraic varieties |
| November 15 | Yi Zhu, Stony Brook | Projective Homogeneous Fibrations over Surfaces |
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November 18 Special Colloquium |
Xinwen Zhu, Harvard | Adelic uniformization of moduli of G-bundles |
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November 22 Special Colloquium |
Tony Varilly, Rice | Explicit arithmetic on algebraic surfaces |
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November 30 Special Colloquium |
Zhiwei Yun, MIT | Motives and the inverse Galois problem |