Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Seminars are on Wednesdays, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 203, unless indicated otherwise.

Talks scheduled for the fall quarter are:

October 4

Walter Baily (University of Chicago)
On moduli of some Fano 4-folds
Abstract

October 11

Andras Szenes (MIT)
Algebraic deformations of moduli spaces of flat connections
Abstract

October 18

Walter Baily (University of Chicago)
On moduli of some Fano 4-folds (continued)
Abstract

October 25

Frank Calegari (UC Berkeley)
Almost rational torsion points on elliptic curves
Abstract

November 1

Ivan Panin (Steklov Institute of Mathematics at St. Petersburg)
Oriented cohomology theories and a Riemann-Roch theorem

November 8

Kenichiro Kimura (University of Tsukuba)
Elliptic units in K_2 groups

November 15

The seminar will not meet on this day.

Edward Witten (IAS) is delivering the Nemmer Prize Lectures
at Northwestern University on November 13th, 14th and 15th,
at 4pm each day.

November 22

Due to the Thanksgiving break, the seminar will not meet on this day.

November 29

Prakash Belkale (University of Utah)
Counterexamples to a conjecture of Kontsevich
Abstract

December 4

There is a special colloquium on this day:

Alexander Klyachko (Bilkent University, visiting U. of Michigan)
Stable bundles, representation theory, and Hermitian operators
Abstract

The talk will be in Eckhart 206 at 4.30 pm.

December 5

There is a joint algebraic geometry/topology seminar:

Sharon Hollander (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
A homotopy theory for stacks

The talk will be in Eckhart 203 at 4:00 pm.

December 6

Matthew Emerton (University of Chicago)
p-adic variation of motives and automorphic forms - an introduction
Abstract

Please contact Matthew Emerton (emerton@math.uchicago.edu) if you have questions or suggestions for speakers.