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.