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Izzet Coskun Rm. 2-167 lastname at math.mit.edu

Teaching:

In the spring semester I will be teaching 18.726 Algebraic Geometry (html), the second semester of the first year graduate algebraic geometry sequence.

Seminars:

BAGS -- The Baby Algebraic Geometry Seminar (html)

MMPS -- The Minimal Model Program Seminar (html)

The Harvard-MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Spring 2007(html)

Travel:

You can find my travel schedule for the next few months here: (html)

Job applications:

This year I am applying for tenure track jobs. Here are my job application materials:

CV (pdf)

Research statement (pdf)

List of Publications (pdf)

Teaching Statement (pdf)

Papers and preprints:

Comments, corrections and suggestions are always welcome.

Geometric positivity in the cohomology of homogeneous spaces and generalized Schubert calculus (joint with Ravi Vakil) (pdf).
Submitted to the Seattle Proceedings.

The cohomology of the space of k-planes on quadrics. Coming soon

Divisors on the space of maps to Grassmannians (joint with Jason Starr). (pdf).
International Mathematics Research Notices, vol. 2006, Article ID 35273, 25 pages, 2006.

The effective cone of the Kontsevich moduli space (joint with Joe Harris and Jason Starr). (pdf).
To appear in the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin.

The ample cone of the Kontsevich moduli space (joint with Joe Harris and Jason Starr) (pdf).
To appear in the Canadian Journal of Mathematics.

Gromov-Witten invariants of jumping curves (pdf).
To appear in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.

A Littlewood-Richardson rule for two-step flag varieties Revised version (pdf). Submitted.
NEW Gallery (html).

Degenerations of surface scrolls and Gromov-Witten invariants of Grassmannians (pdf).
Journal of Algebraic Geometry. 15 (2006), p. 223-284.

The enumerative geometry of Del Pezzo surfaces via degenerations (pdf).
American Journal of Mathematics. vol. 128 no. 3 (2006), p. 751-786.

The arithmetic and the geometry of Kobayashi hyperbolicity (pdf).
Snowbird lectures in algebraic geometry. Contemporary Mathematics, vol 388 (2005) p. 77-88.

A first glimpse at the minimal model program (pdf). (with 8 coauthors)
Snowbird lectures in algebraic geometry. Contemporary Mathematics, vol 388 (2005) p. 17-42.

Degenerations of scrolls and Del Pezzo surfaces and applications to enumerative geometry,
Thesis, Harvard University, 2004.

Past Semesters:

Math 18.727--Topics in Algebraic Geometry: Positivity in Algebraic Geometry (html)

Math 18.727--Topics in Algebraic Geometry: Intersection theory on moduli spaces. Spring 2006 (html).

Math 18.100B--Analysis I. Fall 2005 (html)

Math 18.781--The Theory of Numbers. Fall 2004 (html)

Photos:

Recently Sam and Fumei visited me in Istanbul. Here are some of the pictures that they took. (html)

Past Seminars:

The Harvard-MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Fall 2006 (html)