Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Fall 2008:  Tuesdays 3:00-4:00       MIT 4-231/SC 507


ANNOUNCEMENT: the webpage for next semester is
http://www-math.mit.edu/~lehmann/agsspring09/index.html

Schedule of upcoming talks:
Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).

September 9
Mark Gross (UCSD)
MIT
Mirror symmetry via degenerations
September 16
David Speyer (MIT)
Harvard
Positroid Varieties -- a Beautiful Stratification of the Grassmannian
September 23
János Kollár (Princeton)
MIT
Cremona transformations and homeomorphisms of topological surfaces
September 30
Sabin Cautis (Rice)
Harvard
Equivalances from Geometric sl_2 Actions
October 7
Amnon Yekutieli (Ben Gurion)
MIT
Twisted Deformation Quantization of Algebraic Varieties
October 14
David Swinarski (U. of Georgia)
Harvard
GIT and moduli spaces of curves
October 21
Radu Laza (U. of Michigan)
MIT
Triangulations of the sphere and degenerations of K3 surfaces
October 28
Wenchuan Hu (MIT)
Harvard
The topological structure of Chow varieties
November 4
Jarod Alper (Columbia)
MIT
Constructing moduli spaces of objects with infinite automorphisms
November 11
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November 18
Hsian-hua Tseng (U. of Wisconsin)
Harvard
Hodge integrals on Hurwitz spaces and Gromov-Witten theory of orbifolds
November 25
Bruno De Oliveira (U. Miami / Visiting Scholar Harvard)
MIT
Symmetric differentials and the geometry of projective varieties
December 2
Jenia Tevelev (U. of Massachusetts)
Harvard
Effective divisors and curves on moduli spaces of curves
December 9

MIT

December 16
Michael Temkin (U. of Pennsylvania)
Harvard
Relative Riemann-Zariski Spaces



This seminar is being organized by James McKernan (MIT), Kiran Kedlaya (MIT), Joe Harris (Harvard), and David Smyth (Harvard).  The web page is maintained by Brian Lehmann; it was shamelessly copied from Sebastian Casalaina-Martin's page, which in turn was shamelessly copied from Izzet Coskun's page, which in turn was shamelessly copied from Jason Starr's page, which in turn was shamelessly copied from Ravi Vakil's page, which in turn was shamelessly copied from Pasha Belorousski's page at the University of Michigan. This seminar is supported in part by grants from the NSF. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.