UC Berkeley

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Spring 2007

 Tuesdays, 3:45-6:00
939 Evans Hall
Organized by David Eisenbud and Brian Osserman

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Previous Semesters:
Fall 2005
Spring 2006
Fall 2006

01/16Berkeley-Stanford Algebraic Geometry Colloquium: Kisin and Hacon, Berkeley (MSRI), Simons Auditorium
01/23 3:45David Eisenbud Projections and the Regularity of Powers
          5:00 Carl Miller p-adic etale sheaves on characteristic-p curves
02/06 3:45Mauricio Velasco Picard-graded betti numbers and Cox rings
          5:00 David Morrison Matrix factorization in the twenty-first century
02/20 3:45 Dan Abramovich Tame stacks and reduction of covers
          5:00 Brian Osserman The past, present, and future of limit linear series
02/27 3:45Daniel Robertz Janet's algorithm for modules over polynomial rings
          5:00 Aleksey Zinger On the structure of certain natural sheaves in Gromov-Witten theory
03/13 3:45Robin Hartshorne Gorenstein liaison of varieties in projective space, recent results and questions
          5:00 Alina Marian The level-rank duality for nonabelian theta functions
03/20 3:45Dustin Cartwright Hilbert scheme of points
04/03 3:45Roya Beheshti Generic projections of projective varieties
          5:00 Edward Carter Matrix pencils, 0-regular sheaves, and rational normal scrolls
04/06Berkeley-Stanford Algebraic Geometry Colloquium: Griffiths and Illusie; Stanford
04/24 3:45Ana-Maria Castravet Hilbert's 14th Problem and Cox Rings
          5:00 Daniel Erman The Multiplicity Conjecture
05/08 3:45Ravi Vakil Geometric Littlewood-Richardson rules (equivariant cohomology, K-theory, and flag varieties): degenerations and matroid shifting
          5:00 Bernd Ulrich Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity and linkage