Columbia Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Spring 2017

The Columbia Algebraic Geometry Seminar takes place on Fridays at 3:30 pm in 417 Mathematics Hall on the Columbia campus. All are welcome. Tea is served at 3 pm in 508 Mathematics Hall.

Schedule of upcoming talks

Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).

January 20 No seminar
January 27 No seminar All-day FRG workshop on wall-crossing in enumerative geometry
February 3 Angelo Vistoli SNS, Pisa Fundamental gerbes
February 10 Andrew Obus Virginia Good and bad reduction of dynatomic modular curves
February 17 Special double-header event; 5 pm talk in 203 Math
3:30 pm Dmitri Orlov Steklov Geometric realization of noncommutative varieties, phantoms, and Krull-Schmidt partners
5 pm Dennis Gaitsgory Harvard The Tamagawa number formula over function fields (Kolchin Memorial Lecture)
February 24 Brooke Ullery Harvard Normality of secant varieties
March 3 Gabriele di Cerbo Columbia Boundedness of Calabi-Yau pairs
March 10 Benjamin Bakker Georgia A global Torelli theorem for singular symplectic varieties
March 17 No seminar Spring break
March 24 Philip Engel Harvard Enumerating triangulations of surfaces
March 31 Burt Totaro UCLA Hodge theory of classifying spaces
April 7 Tom Nevins Illinois Compactifications and cohomology of quiver varieties
April 14 Lothar Göttsche ICTP Virtual refinements of the Vafa-Witten formula
April 21 No seminar AGNES at Stony Brook
April 28 Special double-header event
2 pm Kirsten Wickelgren Ga. Tech Arithmetic count of the lines on a smooth cubic surface
3:30 pm Frans Oort Utrecht Algebraic curves with automorphisms

Schedules from the past: F '97 - F '00, S '01, F '01, S '02, F '02, S '03, F '03, S '04, F '04, S '05, F '05, S '06, F '06, S '07, F '07, S '08, F '08, S '09, F '09, S '10, F '10, S '11, F '11, S '12, F '12, S '13, F '13, S '14, F '14, S '15, F '15, S '16, F '16

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