Columbia Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Spring 2011


Ritt and Kolchin Lectures

All of the named lectures in the Department this spring will be devoted to algebraic geometry: Eduard Looijenga will deliver the Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures on Thursday and Friday, February 3 and 4; and Claire Voisin will deliver the Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture on Friday, March 11.


The Columbia Algebraic Geometry Seminar takes place on Fridays from 2 to 3 pm in 417 Mathematics Hall on the Columbia campus. All are welcome.

Schedule of upcoming talks

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

January 21 No seminar
January 28 No seminar
February 4 Noah Giansiracusa Brown Conformal blocks and rational normal curves
February 11 Chenyang Xu MIT Boundedness of algebraic varieties
February 18 Jian Zhou Tsinghua Eynard-Orantin recursions for Hodge integrals
February 25 Alexei Oblomkov Massachusetts Khovanov-Rozansky homology and Hilbert schemes of points on singular curves
March 4 Shigeyuki Kondo Nagoya A supersingular K3 surface in characteristic 2 and the Leech lattice
March 11 Claudio Bartocci Genoa The Calogero-Moser integrable system and bi-hamiltonian geometry
March 18 No seminar Spring break
March 25 Christian Schnell UIC Néron models and normal functions
April 1 Eric Rains Caltech Special seminar on Moduli spaces of differential and difference equations
April 8 Sam Payne Yale CHANGE OF TITLE: Tropical Brill-Noether theory
April 15 Andrew Obus Columbia Cyclic extensions and the local lifting problem
Apr. 22 at 3:30 pm Wei-Ping Li HKUST Extremal Gromov-Witten invariants of Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces
April 29 Danny Gillam Brown Quot schemes and curve counting


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

This page is maintained by Michael Thaddeus and was shamelessly, indirectly copied from Pasha Belorousski.

Other, equally shameless thefts: the Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar, the Stanford Algebraic Geometry Seminar, the Brown University Geometry Seminar, the Lisbon Algebraic Geometry / Moduli Seminar, the Combinatorics Seminar at the University of Michigan, the Front Range Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory Seminar in Colorado, and the Algebraic Geometry and Differential Topology Seminar at the Rényi Institute in Budapest. Also note the suspiciously colored background of the Queen's Algebraic Geometry Seminar and the Michigan Colloquium.