Spring 2016 |
Tuesdays, 3:45-6:00 939 Evans Hall |
| Organized by David Eisenbud | |
| PDF notes, where available, are provided courtesy of Bjorn Poonen, who in no way vouches for their accuracy or completeness |
| 01/19 3:45PM | Vasudevan Srinivas | Elementary introduction to the Weil Conjectures |
| 5:00PM | Vasudevan Srinivas | The diagonal problem |
| 01/26 3:45PM | David Eisenbud | Duality for Residual Intersections |
| 5:00PM | Student seminar | Chapter 1 of “3264 & All That” |
| 02/09 3:45PM | Nic Ford | Boij-Soderberg Theory |
| 5:00PM | Student seminar | 3264 & All That |
| 02/23 3:45PM | Alexander Polishchuk | Moduli spaces of curves with nonspecial divisors and A-infinity algebras (2-hour talk) |
| 03/01 3:45PM | Bernd Sturmfels | Real Rank Geometry of Ternary Forms |
| 03/08 3:45PM | Craig Huneke | Symbolic powers and the question of uniform growth |
| 03/15 3:45PM | Francesco Cavazzani | Complete twisted cubics |
| 03/22 3:45PM | Fatemeh Mohammadi | Degenerating Grassmannians into toric varieties |
| 03/29 3:45PM | Greg Blekherman | Do Sums of Squares Dream of Free Resolutions? |
| 5:00PM | n/a | Student seminar on 3264 |
| 04/05 3:45PM | Piotr Achinger | Liftability of varieties in characteristic p. |
| 04/12 3:45PM | Bernd Sturmfels | Nearest Points on Toric Varieties |
| 04/19 3:45PM | David Eisenbud | Maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules, MCM approximations, and their uses |
| 04/26 3:45PM | No seminar (2-hour talk) | |
| 05/03 3:45PM | Hélène Barcelo | Discrete homotopy and homology groups --- This will be the last seminar of the semester; have a good summer! |