Algebraic geometry talks: Spring 2007

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

January 9 no meeting
January 16 no meeting
January 23 Pascal Hubert, Marseille Construction of Veech groups
January 30 Donghoon Hyeon, Northern Illinois University GIT of bicanonical curves of genus three and the minimal model program for $\overline M_3$
February 6 Zoran Sunic, Texas A&M Hausdorff dimension of finitely constrained groups
February 13
4:00 PM
Yaroslav Vorobets, Texas A&M Closed geodesics on flat surfaces
February 13
5:00 PM
Ilya Shkredov, Moscow State University On sets of large exponential sums
February 16
Friday at 4
Martin Avendano, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Bivariate Fewnomials and Factorization Closed geodesics on flat surfaces
February 20 Máté Wierdl, Memphis TBA
February 27 Justin Sawon, Colorado State Existence of Lagrangian fibrations on holomorphic symplectic manifolds
February 27, 5PM Vitor Araujo, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the University of Porto Thermodynamic formalism and large deviation estimates for non-uniformly expanding maps
March 6 no meeting spring break
March 13 Porter Lectures Alexei Borodin, Caltech
March 20 Alexei Borodin, Caltech TBA
March 23 Friday
Special Colloquium
János Kollár, Princeton/Austin Einstein metrics on spheres
March 27 Benson Farb, Chicago
Wolfe Lecture
Parallels between moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and locally symmetric spaces
March 29
Colloquium
Samuel Grushevsky, Princeton Abelian varieties and their moduli
April 3 Ben Weinkove, Harvard The Calabi-Yau equation and symplectic geometry
April 10 TBA TBA
April 17 Jon Chaika, Rice Hausdorff Dimensions of Ergodic Measures of Interval Exchange Transformations
April 24 Corinna Ulcigrai, Princeton Logarithmic suspension flows over interval exchange transformations

Talks from the Fall 2006 semester