Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Fall 2006: Tuesdays 3:00-4:00

THE SEMINAR AT MIT NOW MEETS IN 4-153.

The Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar will alternate between MIT (4-153) and Harvard (Science Center 507) on Tuesdays. For directions to room 4-153, click ( here ). For directions to Harvard Science Center, click here. You can see last semester's seminars here.

Schedule of upcoming talks:

Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).

Special Seminar on Nov 20, 2006 at 2 p.m. in MIT room 4-270. Fyodor Zak from Independent University of Moscow will speak on families of intersecting linear subspaces in projective space

September 26 Abhinav Kumar (M.I.T. and Microsoft) Harvard K3 surfaces of high rank and Kummer surfaces
October 3 Igor Krichever (Columbia) MIT Characterizing Jacobians via trisecants of the Kummer Variety
October 10 Mihnea Popa (Chicago) Harvard GV-Sheaves, Fourier-Mukai Transform, and generic vanishing
October 17 Mircea Mustat¸a (U Michigan) MIT Singularities via jets: beyond the locally complete intersection case
October 24 Matthias Schuett (Harvard) Harvard Classifying singular K3 surfaces
October 31 Rahul Pandharipande (Princeton) MIT Counting disks
November 7 Ana-Maria Castravet (UMass Amherst) Harvard Hilbert's 14th Problem and Cox Rings
November 14 Dennis Gaitsgory (Harvard) MIT Deformations of Eisenstein series
November 21 Fyodor Zak (Moscow) Harvard Castelnuovo theory for higher dimensional varieties
November 28 Alina Marian (Yale) MIT The level-rank duality for nonabelian theta functions
December 5 Brendan Hassett (Rice University) Harvard Towards a canonical model for the moduli space of curves
December 12 Davesh Maulik (Princeton) MIT Quantum Cohomology of the Hilbert scheme of points on ADE resolutions
December 19 Bjorn Poonen (UC Berkeley) Harvard The moduli space of algebras of finite rank
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