BAGS -- The Baby Algebraic Geometry Seminar 2005-2006

Welcome to the BAGS Spring 2006!

The schedule

The seminar will take place on Tuesdays at 4:30 at the same school as the Harvard-MIT algebraic geometry seminar (html).

The seminar will take place in Room 2-136 (the same room as last semester) when it is at MIT and in SC 530 when it is at Harvard.

For the Fall 2005 talks see (html).

Special mini-seminar: BASIC QUASI-CATEGORIES by Josh

Josh has agreed to give a series of three lectures expanding his BAGS talk this semester and explaining his thesis work on higher categories. These talks will take place on April 14,21,28 at 11 in MIT room 2-143. Here is Josh's announcement pdf

Date	Speaker	Place	Topic
February 14	Special Seminar: Frank Calegari	MIT	Rational Homology Spheres and Automorphic Forms
February 21	Josh	Harvard	Higher algebraic stacks
February 28	Rebecca	MIT	TBA
March 7	Maksym	Harvard	Divisor classes on Severi varieties pdf
March 14	David	MIT	Classical and minimal models of $\bar{M}_2$ dvi
March 21	Valentino	Harvard	The dual cone of the pseudo-effective cone
March 28	No Seminar	No Seminar	Spring Break
April 4	Dawei	Harvard	Tropical geometry from an enumerative viewpoint
April 11	Cancelled	MIT	Cancelled
April 18	Liang	Harvard	An introduction to algebraic fundamental groups pdf
April 25	Ethan	MIT	Effective constructions of Hilbert schemes pdf
May 2	Abhinav	Harvard	Rational points on K3 surfaces
May 9	Christian	MIT	Correlation of rational points and the uniformity conjecture pdf

A potential list of papers that we can discuss

Here is a list of papers that would be fun to discuss in the seminar.(pdf)

This list is intended only as a guide. I tried to make the list fairly broad. Participants are encouraged to talk about papers and topics not covered on this list. Feel free to also e-mail me additional papers or topics that you feel should be presented in the seminar.