BAGS -- The Baby Algebraic Geometry Seminar 2006-2007

Welcome to the BAGS Fall 2006!

The schedule

The seminar will take place at 4:30-5:30 on Tuesdays. It will alternate between Harvard and MIT with the Harvard-MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar. The seminar will be at 2-142 when at MIT and SC 530 when at Harvard.

For last semester's talks see (html).

This semester BU, Tufts and the Clay Intitute are organizing a seminar on vector bundles on curves. The first meeting will be at 2:00 p.m. at B.U. on September 5, 2006. For more information on the seminar see (html).

Date
Speaker
Place
Topic
Sep 19 Rebecca MIT Limit linear series
Sep. 26 Rebecca Harvard Brill-Noether with a moving ramification point
Oct. 3 Jesse MIT Mordell's conjecture/Faltings' Theorem
Oct. 10 Maxym Harvard Degenerations of the projective plane and compactifications of quartics
Oct. 17 Dawei MIT Divisor class calculations on the moduli space of curves
Oct. 24 David Harvard Finding Sections Over Curves.
Oct. 31 Josh MIT Grothendieck universes and new theorems
Nov. 7 Izzet Harvard An introduction to the Minimal Model Program
Nov. 14 Jay MIT CANCELLED
Nov. 21 Ethan Harvard Enumerative geometry of curves with exceptional secant planes
Nov. 28 Brian MIT The Kontsevich moduli space and quantum cohomology
Dec. 5 Izzet Harvard Flips/Flops (Unusual time and place: 2pm SC 232)
Dec. 12 Craig MIT The Cone Theorem

A potential list of papers that we can discuss

Here is a list of papers that would be fun to discuss in the seminar.(pdf)

This list is intended only as a guide. I tried to make the list fairly broad. Participants are encouraged to talk about papers and topics not covered on this list. Feel free to also e-mail me additional papers or topics that you feel should be presented in the seminar.