Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Spring 2010:  Tuesday Harvard SC 507 3:30-4:30 or MIT 26-142 3:00-4:00

ANNOUNCEMENT: Due to the volcanic ash disruptions, the seminar for April 20th has been canceled.
The Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar will alternate between MIT (26-142) and Harvard (Science Center 507).  You can see last semester's seminars here.

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

January 26
 Yu-jong Tzeng (Stanford University)
Harvard
Universal formulas for counting nodal curves on surfaces
February 2
 Ekaterina Amerik (Université de Paris-Sud)
MIT
Self-maps and rational points
February 2
 Marat Rovinsky (Institute for Advanced Study)
 MIT @ 4:30
Stable birational invariants with the Galois descent property
February 9
 Manish Patnaik (Harvard University)
Harvard
Geometry of arithmetic quotients of loop groups
February 16
 NO SEMINAR
NO SEMINAR
February 23
 Curtis McMullen (Harvard University)
Harvard @ 3:30
K3 surfaces, entropy and glue
March 2
 Christian Schnell (University of Illinois at Chicago)
MIT @ 3:00
Complex-analytic Neron models for families of intermediate Jacobians
March 2
 Gavril Farkas (Humboldt Universität)
 MIT @ 4:30
The birational geometry of the moduli space of spin curves
March 9
 Kiran Kedlaya (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Harvard @ 3:00
Resolution of turning points for flat meromorphic connections
March 9
 Dima Arinkin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
 Harvard @ 4:30
Autoduality of Jacobians for singular curves
March 16
 Eric Rains (California Institute of Technology)
MIT @ 3:00
Moduli spaces of differential and difference equations
March 23
 NO SEMINAR
Harvard @ 3:30
NO SEMINAR
March 30
 Maksym Fedorchuk (Columbia University)
MIT @ 3:00
Spaces of hyperelliptic curves with AD singularities
April 6
 Andrew Snowden (Princeton University)
Harvard @ 3:30
Syzygies of Segre embeddings
April 13
 Karl Schwede (University of Michigan)
MIT @ 3:00
On the behavior of test ideals for finite separable morphisms
April 20
 SEMINAR CANCELED

SEMINAR CANCELED
April 27
 Paul Hacking (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Harvard @ 3:30
Mirror symmetry and deformations of surface singularities
May 4
 Max Lieblich (University of Washington)
MIT @ 3:00
Moduli spaces of sheaves and an effective version of Merkurjev's theorem
May 11
 Bjorn Poonen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
MIT @ 3:00
Néron-Severi groups under specialization


This seminar is being organized by Joe Harris (Harvard), Kiran Kedlaya (MIT), Davesh Maulik (MIT), James McKernan (MIT), 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.