Algebraic geometry talks

Milton Brockett Porter Lectures, Johan de Jong, MIT

Rational points and rational connectivity
Lecture 1: January 18, 2005 at 4:00 PM (Biology Lecture Hall 131)
Rational points and rational connectivity, introduction
Lecture 2: January 19, 2005 at 4:00 PM (HB 227)
Hypersurfaces of low degree and homogeneous varieties
Lecture 3: January 21, 2005 at 4:00 PM (HB 227)
Restatement of the main theorem
Lecture 4: January 25, 2005 at 4:00 PM (HB 227)
How to get the energetic morphism?
Lecture 5: January 27, 2005 at 4:00 PM (HB 227)
Conclusion

January 19, 2005 at 2:00 PM (HB 453) Computational algebraic geometry
Fa-lai Chen, University of Science and Technology of China
μ-bases and implicitization of rational curves on surfaces I

January 24, 2005 at 4:00 PM Special colloquium
Laura Matusevich, University of Pennsylvania
Multivariate Hypergeometric Functions

January 26, 2005 at 1:00 PM (HB 453) Computational algebraic geometry
Fa-lai Chen, University of Science and Technology of China
μ-bases and implicitization of rational curves on surfaces II

January 26, 2005 at 3:00 PM (HB 427) Special number theory seminar
Catherine O'Neil, MIT
Sampling spaces and arithmetic dimension

February 7, 2005 at 4:00 PM Special colloquium
Anders Buch, Aarhus University
Formulas for quiver varieties

February 16, 2005 at 4:00 PM Geometry and analysis seminar
Ulrich Derenthal, University of Goettingen
Universal torsors and Cox rings of singular cubic surfaces

February 23, 2005 at 2:00 PM Computational algebraic geometry seminar
Ulrich Derenthal, University of Goettingen
Application of universal torsors to Manin's conjecture

March 2, 2005 Geometry and analysis seminar
Alexander Yong, Berkeley
On Smoothness and Gorensteinness of Schubert varieties

March 3, 2005 Colloquium
Max Lieblich, Brown
The period-index problem and arithmetic geometry

March 9, 2005 at 2:00PM Computational algebraic geometry
Rimvydas Krasauskas, Vilnius University
Bezier patches on canal surfaces and applications

April 21, 2005 Colloquium
Brendan Hassett
Interpolation in algebraic geometry

April 28, 2005 Colloquium
Mihyoung Kim, University of Arizona
Fundamental groups and Diophantine geometry

May 5, 2005 Special seminar at 4:00PM
Chris Rasmussen
On the torsion of the Jacobian varieties of X(p^n)

May 20-22, 2005 Texas algebraic geometry seminar

Talks from the Fall 2004 semester