UC Berkeley

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Fall 2006

 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

08/29 3:45Persi Diaconis Are orthogonal polynomials related to algebra?
          5:00 David Eisenbud Assymptotic ideal theory and Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity
09/12 3:45Martin Olsson The Picard group of the moduli stack of elliptic curves
          5:00 Dagan Karp The Cremona transform in Gromov-Witten theory
10/03Berkeley-Stanford Algebraic Geometry Colloquium: Harris and Kollár, Berkeley, 2 Le Conte
10/17 3:45Michael Fried Connectedness of moduli spaces of Riemann surface covers
          5:00 Sam Payne Toric vector bundles and the resolution property
10/24 3:45Aaron Bertram Thaddeus flips for complex projective K3 surfaces
          5:00 Roya Beheshti Rational Surfaces in Smooth Hypersurfaces
10/31 3:45Jenia Tevelev Modular, log canonical, and tropical compactifications
          5:00 Eduardo Esteves Abel maps for stable curves
11/07 3:45Debbie Yuster Representing tropical linear spaces by circuits
          5:00 Bernd Sturmfels The algebraic degree of semidefinite programming
11/28Berkeley-Stanford Algebraic Geometry Colloquium: Weibel and Grushevsky; Stanford
12/12 3:45David Harbater Patching and differential Galois theory
          5:00 Bernd Ulrich Codimension and connectedness of degeneracy loci