UC Berkeley

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Spring 2014	Tuesdays, 3:45-6:00 939 Evans Hall
Organized by David Eisenbud

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5:00PM	Laura Escobar	Bott-Samelson varieties, subword complexes and brick polytopes
01/28 3:45PM	Ralph Morrison	Algorithms for Mumford curves over the p-adics
5:00PM	David Berlekamp	Six points and the outer automorphism of S6
02/04 3:45PM	Jack Jeffries	How many invariants are needed to separate orbits?
5:00PM	Harrison Chen	Matrix factorizations for the determinant equation
02/18 3:45PM	Vu Thanh	Linear syzygies of Veronese varieties
5:00PM	N/A	No talk at 5 pm this week
02/25 3:45PM	John Voight	The canonical rings of curves and log stacky curves
5:00PM	Laura Escobar	Bott-Samelson varieties, subword complexes and brick polytopes
03/04 3:45PM	N/A	No lecture due to Cheeger's Bowen Lecture
03/11 3:45PM	Steven Sam	Grobner bases for twisted commutative algebras
5:00PM	Madhusudan Manjunath	Smoothing of limit linear series on metrized complexes of algebraic curves
03/18 3:45PM	Gunnar Floystad	Boij-S\"oderberg theory of coherent sheaves on projective spaces and squarefree modules over polynomial rings
5:00PM	Nathan Ilten	Linear Spaces of Singular Matrices
04/22 3:45PM	David Eisenbud	Assymptotic Boij-Soederberg theory and resolutions over complete intersections of quadrics
5:00PM	David Berlekamp	Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity and log-canonical thresholds