Seminar on Topics in Arithmetic, Geometry, Etc.

STAGE is a seminar in algebraic geometry and number theory, featuring speakers talking about work that is not their own. Talks will be at a level suitable for graduate students. Everyone is welcome.
Meetings are held on Fridays, 5-6:30pm in MIT room E17-129, with some exceptions (see schedule below).
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Fall 2015 topic: Moduli of abelian varieties.

References:

Rosen, Abelian varieties over C, in: Cornell and Silverman, Arithmetic geometry, Springer, 1986.
Milne, Abelian varieties (course notes), Chapter I.
Mumford, Abelian varieties, 3rd edition, 2010, republished by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and distributed by the American Math Society.
Mumford, On the equations defining abelian varieties, I, II, III; published in Invent. Math. 1 (1966), 287-354; Invent. Math. 3 (1967), 75-135; Invent. Math. 3 (1967), 215-244; also available as scans on Mumford's website. For a brief overview of these papers, see also these lecture notes by Olsson. See also these notes for a reinterpretation of some of the result in Mumford's first paper.
Olsson, Compactifications of moduli of abelian varieties: an introduction, Current developments in algebraic geometry, 295-348, Math. Sci. Res. Inst. Publ. 59, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012.
Olsson, Compactifying moduli spaces for abelian varieties, Springer, 2008 (worked examples in Sections 5.12 and 5.13).

September 11 at 5:40pm: Bjorn Poonen, Introduction to the moduli space of abelian varieties. Overview and organizational meeting.

September 14 (Monday) at 5pm in E17-133: Renee Bell, Abelian Varieties over C.

September 25: Borys Kadets, Theta functions and Lefschetz embedding theorem.

September 28 (Monday) at 5pm in E17-133: Dmitrii Kubrak, Rational maps to abelian varieties and the theorem of the cube.

October 5 (Monday) at 5pm in E17-133: Nicholas Triantafillou, Dual abelian varieties.

October 16: Zijian Yao, On Equations Defining Abelian Varieties I (a)

October 23: Atticus Christensen, On Equations Defining Abelian Varieties I (b). Definitions sheet

October 30: Zijian Yao, On Equations Defining Abelian Varieties I (c)

November 6: Lynnelle Ye, On Equations Defining Abelian Varieties I (d)

November 13: Geoffrey Smith, On Equations Defining Abelian Varieties I (e)

November 16 (Monday) at 5pm in E17-133: David Corwin, On Equations Defining Abelian Varieties II

November 23 (Monday) at 5pm in E17-133: Padmavathi Srinivasan, Compactifications of the moduli space of abelian varieties I

November 30 (Monday) at 5pm in E17-133: Padmavathi Srinivasan, Compactifications of the moduli space of abelian varieties II

December 4: ???, Compactifications of the moduli space of abelian varieties III

Past semesters: Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015. For semesters up to and including Spring 2009, see the old STAGE webpage.

Organizers: Renee Bell, David Corwin, and Bjorn Poonen