Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Fall 2005: Tuesdays 3:00-4:00


The Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar will alternate between MIT (Room 4-370) and Harvard (Science Center 507) on Tuesdays. For directions to Harvard Science Center, click here. For directions to MIT Room 4-370, click here. You can see last semester's seminars here. You can see the preliminary schedule for next semester's seminars here. Next semester's seminar is maintained by Izzet Coskun.

Schedule of upcoming talks:

Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).

September 20 Amnon Yekutieli (Ben Gurion Univ.) MIT Deformation quantization in algebraic geometry
September 27 Izzet Coskun (MIT) Harvard The ample and effective cones of Kontsevich moduli spaces
October 4 Joe Harris (Harvard) MIT Brill-Noether theory and the Slope Conjecture
October 11 Yuri Tschinkel (Courant/Göttingen) Harvard Geometry over finite fields
October 18 David Speyer (CMI and UMich) MIT A matroid invariant via the K-theory of the Grassmannian
October 25 Luc Illusie (Université Paris-Sud) Harvard Miscellany on traces in l-adic cohomology: a survey
November 1 Paul Hacking (Yale) MIT Degenerations of the plane
November 8 Tommaso de Fernex (University of Utah) Harvard Higher cohomology of divisors on a projective variety
November 15 Fabrice Orgogozo (Princeton) MIT Vanishing cycles over a general base
November 22 Steven L. Kleiman (MIT) Harvard Equisingular clusters on surfaces
November 29 Julianna Tymoczko (UMichigan) MIT Permutation actions on equivariant cohomology
December 6 Ilya Tyomkin (MIT) Harvard Equisingular families of curves on algebraic surfaces
December 13 Brendan Hassett (Rice) MIT Rational points on K3 surfaces over function fields
December 20 Sam Payne (UMichigan) Harvard Toric vector bundles and the resolution property

This web page is maintained by Jason Starr; it 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.