Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Spring 2009:  Tuesdays 3:00-4:00       MIT 24-115/SC 507

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: The seminar meeting room for MIT will be 24-115.
The Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar will alternate between MIT (24-115) and Harvard (Science Center 507) - note the change from last year.  You can see last semester's seminars here. You can find the webpage for the Baby Algebraic Geometry Seminar (for graduate students) here.

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

February 3
 NO SEMINAR
Harvard

February 10
 NO SEMINAR
MIT

February 17
 NO SEMINAR
Harvard

February 24
 NO SEMINAR
MIT

March 3
 Eduardo Esteves (IMPA)
Harvard
Compactified Jacobians and Abel Maps for Singular Curves
March 10
 NO SEMINAR
MIT

March 17
 Shihoko Ishii (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Harvard
Properties of Jet Schemes
March 24
NO SEMINAR
NO SEMINAR
March 31
 NO SEMINAR -- Ravi Vakil is speaking at the BC Distinguished Lecturer in Mathematics series.
 MIT

April 7
 Paul Baum (Penn State University) - joint with Noncommutative Algebra and Lie Group seminars
 4:30 @ MIT 2-135
Morita Equivalence Revisited
April 14
 NO SEMINAR
MIT

April 21
 Diane Maclagan (University of Warwick)
Harvard
Tropical Bounds on Nef Cones
April 28
 Jesse Kass (Harvard University)
MIT
Good Completions of Néron Models and Moduli of Sheaves on Curves
May 5
Harvard

May 12
 Ivan Cheltsov (University of Edinburgh)
MIT
Factorial Threefolds
May 19
 Amnon Neeman (Mathematical Sciences Institute - ANU)
Harvard
A New Approach to Dualizing Complexes


This seminar is being organized by James McKernan (MIT), Kiran Kedlaya (MIT), Joe Harris (Harvard), 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.