Algebraic Geometry Seminar 2011-2012

Fridays, 3:00 in 383-N

Click on the title to see the abstract (if available). For more information, please contact Jun Li, or Ravi Vakil.

Schedule of talks: (TBA means in the process of being assigned)

Fall Quarter
Oct. 21 Zhenbo Qin (Missouri) Cohomology rings of Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces
Oct. 28    
Nov. 4    
Nov. 11 Artan Sheshmani (UBC) Higher rank stable pairs and virtual localization over local Calabi-Yau and K3
Nov. 18 Ravi Vakil (Stanford) Stabilization of discriminants in the Grothendieck ring
Nov. 25 Holiday  
Dec. 2 Hao Xu (Harvard) Eynard-Orantin theory and intersection numbers
Dec. 9 Max Lieblich (Washington) Finiteness of K3 surfaces and the Tate conjecture
Winter Quarter
Jan 13 Morgan Brown (Berkeley)  
Jan 20 Alexander Polishchuk (Oregon) Matrix factorizations and cohomological field theories
Jan 27    
Feb 3 Xinwen Zhu (Harvard)  
Feb 10 Steven Sam (MIT)  
Fwb 17  
Fwb 24  
Mar 2  
Mar 9 Christian Liedtke
Mar 16 Manfred Lehn (Mainz)
Spring Quarter
Mar. 31    
April 13 Misha Grinberg (Renaissance)  
May 26