Izzet Coskun

E-mail: Last name at math.uic.edu

851 S. Morgan St. 423

Chicago, IL 60607

Teaching:

Seminars:

A Conference to celebrate Robin Hartshorne's 70th birthday, April 11-13 2008 (HARTSHORNE)

Midwest Number Theory Days, March 7-8 2008 (MNTD)

The UIC Algebraic Geometry Seminar Spring 2008 (AGS)

The UIC Graduate Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar (GradAGS)

Personal:

Papers and preprints:

• The quantum cohomology of flag varieties and the periodicity of the Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. (pdf)
  Preliminary version. Any comments, corrections, suggestions are welcome.
• A Littlewood-Richardson rule for partial flag varieties. (pdf).
  This is a preliminary version of a Littlewood-Richardson rule for arbitrary partial flag varieties. Any comments, corrections and suggestions are welcome.
  GALLERY (html)
• A Littlewood-Richardson rule for two-step flag varieties (pdf).
  A substantially revised version of my old manuscript.
• Geometric positivity in the cohomology of homogeneous spaces and generalized Schubert calculus (joint with Ravi Vakil) (pdf).
  Submitted to the Seattle Proceedings.
• The cohomology of the space of k-planes on quadrics. Coming soon
• Divisors on the space of maps to Grassmannians (joint with Jason Starr). (pdf).
  International Mathematics Research Notices, vol. 2006, Article ID 35273, 25 pages, 2006.
• The effective cone of the Kontsevich moduli space (joint with Joe Harris and Jason Starr). (pdf).
  To appear in the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin.
• The ample cone of the Kontsevich moduli space (joint with Joe Harris and Jason Starr) (pdf).
  To appear in the Canadian Journal of Mathematics.

• Gromov-Witten invariants of jumping curves (pdf).
  Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 360 (2008), p. 989-1004.

• A Littlewood-Richardson rule for two-step flag varieties Revised version (pdf). Submitted.
  NEW Gallery (html).

• Degenerations of surface scrolls and Gromov-Witten invariants of Grassmannians (pdf).
  Journal of Algebraic Geometry. 15 (2006), p. 223-284.

• The enumerative geometry of Del Pezzo surfaces via degenerations (pdf).
  American Journal of Mathematics. vol. 128 no. 3 (2006), p. 751-786.

• The arithmetic and the geometry of Kobayashi hyperbolicity (pdf).
  Snowbird lectures in algebraic geometry. Contemporary Mathematics, vol 388 (2005) p. 77-88.

• A first glimpse at the minimal model program (pdf). (with 8 coauthors)
  Snowbird lectures in algebraic geometry. Contemporary Mathematics, vol 388 (2005) p. 17-42.

• Degenerations of scrolls and Del Pezzo surfaces and applications to enumerative geometry,
  Thesis, Harvard University, 2004.

Past Semesters at UIC:

Math 330 Abstract Algebra, Fall 2007 (math330)

The UIC Algebraic Geometry Seminar (AGS)

Past Semesters at MIT:

Math 18.726 Algebraic Geometry, Spring 2007 (html).

Math 18.727--Topics in Algebraic Geometry: Positivity in Algebraic Geometry Fall 2006 (html)

Math 18.727--Topics in Algebraic Geometry: Intersection theory on moduli spaces. Spring 2006 (html).

Math 18.100B--Analysis I. Fall 2005 (html)

Math 18.781--The Theory of Numbers. Fall 2004 (html)

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