Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Fall 2010:  Tuesday Harvard SC 507 3:00-4:00 or MIT 26-310 3:00-4:00

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The Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar will alternate between MIT (26-310) and Harvard (Science Center 507).  You can see last semester's seminars here, and next semester's seminars here.

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

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September 14
 Abhinav Kumar
Harvard
All the Elliptic Fibrations on a generic Jacobian Kummer Surface
September 21
 Stefan Kebekus
MIT
Positivity properties of differentials, the minimal model program, and hyperbolicity of moduli stacks
September 28
 Dawei Chen
Harvard
Geometry of Teichmuller curves
October 5
 Jacob Lurie
MIT
Tamagawa Numbers via Nonabelian Poincare Duality
October 12
 Kevin Tucker
Harvard
On the behavior of multiplier ideals and test ideals under finite morphisms in positive characteristic
Extra Talk
 Hsian-Hua Tseng
Harvard
Towards a Torelli Theorem for K3 Orbifolds
October 19
 Emanuel Diaconescu
MIT
Wallcrossing and Cohomology of The Hitchin System
October 26
 Michael Rapoport
Harvard
Occult Period Maps
November 2
 Xiaotau Sun
MIT
Frobenius morphism and semi-stable bundles
November 9
 Ragni Piene
Harvard
Inflection loci of projective varieties
November 16
 Hélène Esnault
MIT
Lifting of cycle class in crystalline cohomology
November 23
 Rahul Pandharipande
Harvard
The tautological ring of M_g
November 30
 Shunsuke Takagi
MIT
Non-lc ideal sheaves
December 7
 Noah Giansiracusa
Harvard
Conformal Blocks and Rational Normal Curves


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 Kartik Venkatram ; it was shamelessly copied from Brian Lehmann's page, which in turn 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.