U. C. Berkeley

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Spring 2006

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

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Previous Semesters:
Fall 2005

01/24 3:45Brendan Hassett Compact moduli spaces for surfaces of general type
          5:00 Izzet Coskun Divisors in spaces of maps of varieties
02/07 3:45Robin Hartshorne Prehistory of algebraic geometry
          5:00 Frederic Campana Special manifolds, orbifolds, and classification theory
02/14 3:45Martin Olsson Compactifying the moduli space of abelian varieties
          5:00 Rob Easton Strange surfaces in positive characteristic
02/21 3:45Dragos Oprea Comparing bundles on curves to maps into Grassmannians
          5:00 Oliver Wienand Using Groebner bases techniques in formal verification
02/28 3:45Andrew Kresch An introduction to stacks (2-hour talk)
03/07 3:45Dave Bayer Automata theory for algebraists
03/14 3:45Matthias Beck Cyclotomic Polytopes and Growth Series of Cyclotomic Lattices
          5:00 Bernd Ulrich Linkage and Gorenstein linkage
04/04 3:45Max Lieblich Boundedness of families of canonically polarized manifolds: a higher dimensional analogue of Shafarevich's conjecture
          5:00 David Speyer A matroid invariant via the K-theory of the Grassmannian
04/11 3:45Persi Diaconis Supercharacters and Algebra Groups
          5:00 Serkan Hosten Gorenstein initial complexes
04/18 3:45James McKernan A new approach to Mori theory (2-hour talk)
05/02 3:45Ravi Vakil Desingularizing the main component of the space of genus one stable maps to projective space
          5:00 Allen Knutson Limits of subvarieties: subschemes vs. branchvarieties