Columbia Algebraic Geometry Seminar 

Spring 2002


The Columbia Algebraic Geometry Seminar takes place Fridays at 2:30 pm in 417 Mathematics. All are welcome.

Schedule of upcoming talks

Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).
January 25 Tom Graber (Harvard) Sections over curves and rational connectivity
February 1 No seminar No seminar 
February 8 Johan deJong (MIT) The period-index theorem for surfaces
February 15 Daniel Allcock (Harvard) Hyperbolic geometry and moduli of real cubic surfaces
February 22 No seminar Alternative: Neil Sloane at 2:30pm
March 1 Friedrich Knop (Rutgers) Hamiltonian manifolds and Delzant's conjecture
March 8 Ezra Getzler (Northwestern and IAS) The equivariant Toda conjecture
March 15  Ezra Miller (MIT) Grobner geometry of flag varieties
March 22 No seminar Spring break
March 29 Adam Logan (Berkeley) Kodaira dimension of moduli spaces of curves with marked points
April 5 Andrew Kresch (Penn) Gromov-Witten invariants on Grassmannians
April 12 Ravi Vakil (Stanford and MSRI) Vanishing of cohomology classes on the moduli space of curves
Wed, April 17 Rahul Pandharipande (Princeton) Gromov-Witten Theory and Integrable Hierarchies
(Colloquium talk in Math 520 at 4:15pm)
April 19 No seminar Ritt Lectures
April 26 Mike Roth (Michigan) Quot Schemes and Stable Maps
May 3 TBA TBA
May 10 Yuri Tschinkel (UIC and Princeton) Rationality of Moduli Spaces

For seminar schedule for Fall 2001, click here.


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Last updated January 22.