UC Berkeley

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Fall 2017

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

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08/29  3:45PM David Eisenbud The Equations of K3 Carpets
           5:00PM n/a Student CA+AG seminar organizational meeting
09/05  3:45PM Hailong Dao Auslander-Reiten duality for commutative rings: a survey of some recent developments
           5:00PM Madeleine Weinstein Symbolic Powers Part 1: Symbolic Powers and the Zariski-Nagata Theorem
09/12  3:45PM Bernd Sturmfels Changing Views on Curves and Surfaces
           5:00PM Jana Sotakova Evolutions and Second Symbolic Powers
09/19  3:45PM Chris Eur A Survey of Riemann-Roch in Tropical Geometry
           5:00PM Charles Wang Matroids, Graphs, and Symbolic Powers of Monomial Ideals
09/26  3:45PM Karim Adiprasito The belly of a minimal free resolution
           5:00PM Leon Zhang Symbolic Powers of Determinantal Ideals
10/03  3:45PM Benjamin Braun Algebraic Aspects of Lattice Polytopes
           5:00PM Mengyuan Zhang Liaison among curves in P^3
10/10  3:45PM Brent Holmes Serre Condition (S_r) for Simplicial Complexes
           5:00PM n/a No seminar
10/17  3:45PM Michael Kemeny The extremal Betti number of a canonical curve
           5:00PM Ritvik Ramkumar Introduction to Deformation Theory
10/24  3:45PM N/A No talk
           5:00PM Ritvik Ramkumar A “bad” component of the Hilbert Scheme
10/27  5:00PM Madeline Brandt Stillman's Question, Solved! (Part 1)
10/31  3:45PM Arthur Ogus Monodromy and Log Geometry
11/07  3:45PM Adam Boocher Lower Bounds for Betti Numbers
           5:00PM Stillman's Question, Solved! (Part 2) Chris Eur
11/14  3:45PM Craig Huneke An introduction to a conjecture of Lech
           5:00PM Justin Chen Stillman's Question, Solved! (Part 3)
11/21  3:45PM Tom Church New methods for finite generation
11/28  3:45PM Visu Makam Degree bounds for invariant rings of quivers
           5:00PM Chris Eur Complete intersections of given Hilbert polynomial
12/05  3:45PM n/a n/a
           5:00PM Ben Wormleighton Equivariant Hilbert schemes as quiver varieties