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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NO SEMINAR
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.