Farb Working Group   πŸ§ΊπŸ₯–πŸ·

Spring 2020

Date Speaker Title
April 16, 2020 Everyone! Hi first years! To everyone else: Welcome back! :)
April 20, 2020 Eduard Looijenga Rational elliptic surfaces and the configuration space of 12 element subsets of the Riemann sphere.
Notes by Eduard Looijenga: Part 1, Part 2
April 23, 2020 Phil Tosteson Fermat Hypersurfaces: then and now
Notes by Phil Tosteson: Talk notes
April 27, 2020 Trevor Hyde On a Theorem of Jordan
Notes by Trevor Hyde: Talk notes
April 30, 2020 Soohyun Park Polynomial Equations and Convex Polytopes
Notes by Soohyun Park: Notes, Slides
May 4, 2020 Nat Mayer Theta Functions, Old and New
Notes by Nat Mayer: Slides
May 7, 2020 Nate Harman How to use finite fields for problems concerning infinite fields
Notes by Nate Harman: Slides
May 11, 2020 Yunpeng Zi Negative Curves on Algebraic Surfaces
Notes by Yunpeng Zi: Slides
May 14, 2020 Ronno Das A description of the outer automorphism of S_6, and the invariants of six points in projective space
Notes by Ronno Das: Notes
May 18, 2020 Adán Medrano Martín del Campo Four dimensional lattices with the same theta series
Notes by Adán Medrano Martín del Campo: Notes
May 21, 2020 Benson Farb The mapping class group of a rational elliptic surface
May 25, 2020 N. Holiday Memorial Day
May 28, 2020 Everyone! A series of short stories on......
June 1, 2020 Trevor Hyde Belyi's Theorem
Notes by Trevor Hyde: Notes
June 4, 2020 Benson Farb How are curve complexes related to homological stability? (asked by Nir Gadish)
June 8, 2020 Benson Farb CAT(0) spaces