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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Spring 2014

   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
09/02  3:45PM Brian Osserman Recent progress on limit linear series
           5:00PM Ziv Ran Deformations of Complex Poisson manifolds and their Lagrangian Submanifolds
09/23  3:45PM Hai Long Dao On limits in commutative algebra
           5:00PM Frank-Olaf Schreyer Tate resolution on products of projective spaces
10/14  3:45PM Brendan Hassett Families of fibrations of del Pezzo surfaces
           5:00PM Brooke Ullery Normality of Secant Varieties
10/21  3:45PM Volkmar Welker Betti numbers of barycentric and edgewise subdivisions
           5:00PM N/A No talk at 5pm
10/28  3:45PM Jesse Burke Higher Homotopies and Golod Rings
           5:00PM Justin Chen The Green-Lazarsfeld Gonality Conjecture (after Ein-Lazarsfeld)
11/04  3:45PM B. Purnaprajna Geometry of varieties of general type
           5:00PM Hirotachi Abo Hunting for secant varieties with unexpected dimensions
11/25  3:45PM Bernd Sturmfels The Hurwitz Form of a Projective Variety
           3:45PM Bernd Sturmfels The Hurwitz Form of a Projective Variety
           5:00PM Winfried Bruns Maximal minors and linear powers
           5:00PM Winfried Bruns Maximal minors and linear powers
12/09  1:30PM Hai Long Dao Endomorphism rings and non-commutative resolution of singularities
           2:45PM J.M. Landsberg From matrix rigidity to intersection theory; or how I convinced Paolo Aluffi to work on a question in complexity theory
01/20  3:45PM Karim Adiprasito Some current challenges between combinatorics, algebra and geometry (on the example of the cube)
           5:00PM n/a No talk