Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Fall 2009

Friday, 4:10-5:00. 740 Evans. We will also have some talks Tuesday 5-6 in 939 Evans during September.
Organized by Morgan Brown and Charley Crissman


The seminar this year is going to be more of an introductory seminar for first and second year students. We will be roughly following Lazarsfeld's book Positivity in Algebraic Geometry I, but all talks are intended to be accessible even if you haven't been attending regularly.

Schedule

9/1Andrew Critch What is a scheme?
9/4Charley Crissman What is a line bundle?
9/8Morgan Brown What is a blow up?
9/11Adam Boocher What is Ample?
9/18Jason Ferguson Riemann-Roch and the Picard Group: Introduction to the Additive Structure of Divisors
9/25Adam Chavin Iitaka Dimension
10/2Andrew Critch Cones of divisors and Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity (Part 1)
10/8Andrew Critch Cones of divisors and Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity (Part 2)
10/9Morgan Brown Rings of Sections which are not finitely generated.
10/16Charlie Crissman The Topology of Varieties of Small Codimension
10/23Thanh Vu Vanishing Theorems
10/30   
11/6   
11/13   
11/20   
11/27Thanksgiving. No meeting.
12/4   
12/12