Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Spring 2008:  Tuesdays 3:00-4:00


The Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar will alternate between MIT (4-149) and Harvard (Science Center 507).  For directions to Building 4 at MIT, click here.  For directions to the Harvard Science Center, click here.  You can see last semester's seminars here.

NEXT SEMESTER'S SCHEDULE

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

February 5
Ovidiu Pasarescu
(Inst. of Math. of the Romanian Academy  and Colorado State)
Harvard
On the classification of embedded curves
February 12
Ivan Cheltsov (University of Edinburgh)
MIT
Birational automorphisms and alpha-invariants
February 19
Ilya Tyomkin (MIT) Harvard Tropical curves, toric stacks, and enumerative geometry
February 26
Dan Abramovich (Brown)
MIT Counting curves with tangency conditions: comparison of approaches
March 4
Steven Kleiman (MIT)
Harvard The canonical model of a singular curve
March 11
Klaus Hulek (University of Hannover)
MIT Moduli of polarized symplectic manifolds
March 18
Fred van der Wyck (Harvard) Harvard Moduli of curves with prescribed normalization and singularities
March 25
NO SEMINAR

NO SEMINAR
April 1
Cristian Gonzalez Martinez (Tufts University)
Harvard The Hodge-Poincare polynomial of the moduli space of stable vector bundles
April 8
Ragni Piene (University of Oslo)
MIT Classifying lattice polytopes via toric fibrations
April 15
Concettina Galati (University of Calabria)
Harvard Degenerating curves and surfaces: first results and applications to enumerative geometry of curves on surfaces
April 22
James Borger (Australian National U. and University of Chicago)
MIT Witt vectors, Lambda-rings, and absolute algebraic geometry
April 29
Mike Roth (Queen's University)
Harvard Cup products for line bundles on complete flag varieties
May 6
Paolo Cascini (UC Santa Barbara)
MIT On the Minimal Model Program



This seminar is being organized by James McKernan (MIT), Kiran Kedlaya (MIT), Joe Harris (Harvard), and Sebastian Casalaina-Martin (Harvard).  The web page is maintained by Sebastian Casalaina-Martin; it 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.