Algebraic geometry talks: Spring 2010

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

January 12 J.M. Landsberg, Texas A&M Geometric approaches to P vs. NP
January 14
Colloquium
Yuri Tschinkel, NYU A Torelli theorem over finite fields
January 19 Brian Lehmann, MIT Pseudo-effective reduction maps
January 26 no meeting
February 2 Zach Teitler, Texas A&M Ranks of polynomials
February 9 Jack Hall, Stanford Hilbert stacks of moduli spaces
February 16 no meeting Porter Lecture
February 22
Colloquium
Karl Schwede, Michigan Singularities of polynomials in characteristic 0 and characteristic p
February 23 Matt DeLand, Stony Brook Complete families of non-degenerate rational curves
March 2 no meeting spring break
March 9 Mark Watkins, Sydney A quick tour of Magma features for algebraic geometry
March 16 no meeting
March 23 Kirsten Wickelgren, Harvard/AIM Etale pi_1 obstructions to rational points
March 29
Monday at noon in HB 427
Jordan Ellenberg, Wisconsin Stable cohomology for Hurwitz spaces and arithmetic applications
March 30 Bianca Viray, U.C. Berkeley Failure of the Hasse principle for Enriques surfaces
April 6 Kelly McKinnie, University of Montana Determining division algebras via splitting fields
April 13
10:50 AM in HB 453
Joe Rabinoff, Harvard Canonical subgroups for abelian varieties
April 15
colloquium
Bjorn Poonen, MIT Undecidability in number theory
April 16-18 Texas Algebraic Geometry Seminar U.T. Austin
April 20 Laura Matusevich, Texas A&M Quotients of A-hypergeometric systems
April 27 Dave Jensen, U.T. Austin Moduli of Curves from the Perspective of Rational Maps

Talks from the Fall 2009 semester