Columbia Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Fall 2015


The Columbia Algebraic Geometry Seminar takes place on Fridays at 3:30 pm in 417 Mathematics Hall on the Columbia campus. All are welcome. Tea is served at 3 pm in 508 Mathematics Hall.

Schedule of upcoming talks

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

September 11 No seminar
September 18 Daniel Litt Columbia Non-abelian Lefschetz hyperplane theorems
September 25 Special double-header event; 2 pm talk in 203 Math
2:00 pm Jordan Ellenberg Wisconsin Algebraic geometry and incidence problems
3:30 pm Alexander Polishchuk Oregon Moduli of curves as moduli of A-infinity structures
October 2 No seminar Brown AGNES
October 9 Zijun Zhou Columbia Relative orbifold Donaldson-Thomas theory and local gerby curves
October 16 Hsian-Hua Tseng Ohio State On orbifold Gromov-Witten theory in small codimensions
October 23 John Lesieutre UIC Constraints on threefolds admitting positive entropy automorphisms
October 30 Rohini Ramadas Michigan Hurwitz correspondences on compactifications of M0,N
November 6 Gabriele di Cerbo Columbia Birational geometry of complex hyperbolic manifolds
November 13 Inna Zakharevich Chicago Cutting and pasting varieties using algebraic K-theory
November 20 Georg Oberdieck MIT Gromov-Witten invariants of the Hilbert scheme of points of a K3 surface (and more)
November 27 No seminar Thanksgiving
December 4 Jose Gonzalez Yale The moduli space of stable n-pointed genus zero curves is not a Mori dream space when n is at least 13
December 11 Special double-header event; 2 pm talk in 203 Math
2:00 pm Jarod Alper ANU A Luna etale slice theorem for algebraic stacks
3:30 pm Simon Schieder MIT A canonical degeneration of the moduli space of bundles


Schedules from the past: F '97 - F '00, S '01, F '01, S '02, F '02, S '03, F '03, S '04, F '04, S '05, F '05, S '06, F '06, S '07, F '07, S '08, F '08, S '09, F '09, S '10, F '10, S '11, F '11, S '12, F '12, S '13, F '13, S '14, F '14, S '15

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