Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Fall 2009:  Tuesdays 3:00-4:00       Harvard SC 507/MIT 26-204

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Snowbird MRC Conference in Summer 2010 is on the topic of Birational Geometry and Moduli Spaces. More information can be found here.
ANNOUNCEMENT: The webpage for next semester's seminar can be found here.
The Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar will alternate between MIT (26-204) and Harvard (Science Center 507).  You can see last semester's seminars here.

Schedule of upcoming talks:
Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).

September 15
 Chenyang Xu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Harvard
Strong rational connectedness of surfaces and its applications
September 22
 Yuri Tschinkel (New York University)
MIT
K3 surfaces and their higher dimensional analogs
September 29
 Samuel Grushevsky (Stony Brook University)
Harvard
The geometry of M_g and differentials with real periods
October 6
 Brian Lehmann (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
MIT
Pseudo-effective reduction maps
October 13
 Wei Ho (Harvard University)
Harvard
Orbit parametrizations of curves
October 20
 Alina Marian (University of Illinois at Chicago)
MIT
The moduli space of stable quotients
October 27
 Stephanie Yang (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan Stockholm)
Harvard
Tautological rings of moduli spaces of curves
November 3
 Daniel Erman (University of California Berkeley)
MIT
Deformations of 0-dimensional schemes
November 10
 Kirsten Wickelgren (Harvard University)
Harvard
Etale pi_1 obstructions to rational points
November 17
 Joseph Rabinoff (Harvard University)
MIT
Tropical intersection numbers and canonical subgroups
November 23
 JOINT SEMINAR: Hans Schoutens (New York City College of Technology)
MIT 3-442, 3:15 pm
 Schemic Grothendieck rings and motivic rationality
November 24
 Mihnea Popa (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Harvard
BGG correspondence and the cohomology of compact Kaehler manifolds
December 1
 Gregory Pearlstein (Michigan State University)
MIT
Zero loci of normal functions
December 8
 Dennis Eriksson (University of Tokyo)
Harvard
The determinant of the cohomology revisited
December 15
 Junecue Suh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
MIT
Lifting cusp forms modulo p


This seminar is being organized by Joe Harris (Harvard), Kiran Kedlaya (MIT), Davesh Maulik (MIT), James McKernan (MIT), and David Smyth (Harvard).  The web page is maintained by Brian Lehmann; it was shamelessly copied from Sebastian Casalaina-Martin's page, which in turn was shamelessly copied from Izzet Coskun's page, which in turn was shamelessly copied from Jason Starr's page, which in turn was shamelessly copied from Ravi Vakil's page, which in turn was shamelessly copied from Pasha Belorousski's page at the University of Michigan. This seminar is supported in part by grants from the NSF. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.