Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Organizers: Charley Crissman and Andrew Critch
Time: Fridays, 4-5pm
Location: 736 Evans

Topics

We have grouped the semester into three approximately equal chunks, each of which is primarily devoted to one of three topics:

Topic Timeframe
Curves Sep 9 - Oct 7
Algebraic Groups Oct 14 - early November
Birational Geometry November - end of semester

Schedule

Date Speaker Topic Title/Abstract
9-2 Organizational Meeting
9-7 Nathan Ilten Birational Geometry of Curves Birational Geometry of Smooth Projective Curves
9-16 Andrew Niles Moduli of Elliptic Curves Moduli of Elliptic Curves
9-23 Shelly Manber Rational Points on Elliptic Curves
9-30 Katrina Honigs Hilbert Schemes Representability of the Hilbert Functor
10-7 Charley Crissman Brill-Noether Theory The Basics of Brill-Noether Theory
10-14 Peter Mannisto The Picard Scheme
10-21 Pablo Solis Loop Groups and/or Schubert Stuff Intro to Reductive Groups and Flag Varieties
10-28 George Melvin Algebraic Groups over Finite Fields Representations of Finite Algebraic Groups
11-4 Piotr Achinger Mori Dream Spaces Mori Dream Spaces (after Hu and Keel)
11-18 Andrew Critch Birational Geometry of Hidden Markov Varieties Birational Geometry of Hidden Markov Varieties
12-2 Andrew Dudzik Is there a nice extension of Spec to noncommutative rings?
12-9 Morgan Brown What is a flip?