Graduate student algebraic geometry seminar

Professor A.J. de Jong, Columbia university, Department of Mathematics.

This semester I am running my graduate student seminar.

Basic setup this semester: every week one of the graduate students lectures on a published paper. You can pick your own paper but please talk to me before deciding. Possible lists of papers to choose from can be found here or here or here or here.

Organizational:

  1. Please email me if you want to be on the associated mailing list.
  2. Time and place: Room 622, Tuesdays 6:30 -- 8:00 PM.
  3. First meeting: September 9. Everybody interested please attend.
  4. If you are slated to give a talk, please meet with me to discuss the topic and how you want to present the material.

List of lectures:

  1. Sep 9. Johan. Besides this being an organizational meeting, I will talk about Totaro's paper Hilbert's 14th problem over finite fields and a conjecture on the cone of curves
  2. Sep 16. No seminar.
  3. Sep 23. Ethan. Totaro's paper on hypersurfaces that are not stably rational
  4. Sep 30. Nicolas. Topic TBA
  5. Oct 7. Sofia. Topic TBA
  6. Oct 14. Peter. Topic: Configuration Spaces.
  7. Oct 21. Alex. Gabber's proof of nonnegativity of intersection numbers.
  8. Oct 28. Sangmin. Topic TBA
  9. Nov 4. No talk; election day.
  10. Nov 11. Vidhu. Torelli for hypersurfaces.
  11. Nov 18.
  12. Nov 25. Wenqi. TBA
  13. Dec 2.