Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Spring 2007: Tuesdays 3:00-4:00

NOTE ROOM CHANGE: THE SEMINAR AT MIT NOW MEETS IN 24-115

The Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar will alternate between MIT (24-115) and Harvard (Science Center 507) on Tuesdays. For directions to room TBA, click ( here ). For directions to Harvard Science Center, click here. You can see last semester's seminars here.

There will be a workshop on the Minimal Model Program at the Clay Institute on May 16 and 17. For a schedule of talks click here (pdf) (pdf)

Schedule of upcoming talks:

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

February 6 Amnon Yekutieli (Ben Gurion) Harvard Rigid Dualizing Complexes via Differential Graded Algebras
February 13 Jason Starr (SUNY Stony Brook) MIT Rational simple connectedness and weak approximation
February 20 Sophie Morel (Clay and IAS) Harvard Intersection complex on the Baily-Borel compactification of a Siegel modular variety
February 27 Brian Conrad (U. of Michigan) MIT Class numbers of algebraic groups over function fields
March 6 Karen Smith (U. of Michigan) Harvard Divisors essential for multiplier ideals
March 13 Dawei Chen (Harvard) MIT Moduli Space of Curves and Covers of Tori
March 20 Radu Laza (U. of Michigan) Harvard The moduli space of cubic fourfolds
March 27 NO SEMINAR HARVARD-MIT SPRING BREAK
April 3 James Carlson (Clay) Harvard The moduli space of cubic threefolds as a ball quotient
April 10 Luc Illusie (Paris-Sud and IAS) MIT On Gabber's finiteness theorem in etale cohomology
April 17 Anders Buch (Rutgers) Harvard Equivariant Gromov-Witten invariants of Grassmannians
April 24 Ethan Cotterill (Harvard) MIT Enumerative geometry of curves with exceptional secant planes
May 1 Vadim Vologodsky (UChicago) Harvard Towards a p-adic Riemann-Hilbert correspondence
May 8 David Smyth (Harvard) MIT New Modular Compactifications of $M_{1,n}$

Note that there will be two special seminars in algebraic geometry: On Wednesday February 21 at 3 pm in MIT room 4-265 James McKernan and on Thursday February 22 at 3 pm in MIT room 4-237 Christopher Hacon will speak about Finite Generation of Canonical Rings I and II, respectively.

This web page is maintained by Izzet Coskun; it 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.