The UIC Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Fall 2007: Thursdays 4:00-6:00


The UIC Algebraic Geometry Seminar will take place at 4:00 pm in SEO 636.

Note that on October 4, Mircea Mustata (U Michigan) will give the Departmental Colloquium.

Here are some links of interest:

  • Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry Seminar NTAG
  • Graduate Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar GAGS
  • Schedule of upcoming talks:

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

    August 29 Organizational meeting
    September 6 Christian Haesemeyer (UIC) Du Bois invariants of singularities and a question of Bass
    September 13 Dano Kim (U Chicago) Extension of pluriadjoint sections from a log-canonical center
    September 20 Luca Scala (U Chicago) Strange duality on the projective plane and the cohomology of Hilbert schemes of points
    September 24 (Note Special date and place LC A5) Paolo Stellari (U. Milano) and Emanuele Macri (Max Planck) Derived Torelli theorem and orientation
    October 4 (Talk is at 4:30) Laurentiu Maxim (CUNY) Generalizations of the Chern-Hirzebruch-Serre formula in complex algebraic geometry
    October 11 Christian Schnell (Ohio State) On the canonical extension of a local system
    October 15 (Note special date and place) Anton Leykin (UMN) Numerical primary decomposition
    October 18 Melissa Liu (Northwestern) Nekrasov's conjectures for toric surfaces
    October 25 Frank Sottile (Texas AM) Khovanskii-Rolle continuation for real solutions
    November 1 Alexey Ovchinnikov (UIC) Representations of differential algebraic groups
    November 8 Joe Harris (Harvard)
    November 15 Dawei Chen (Harvard)
    November 22 No Seminar Thanksgiving
    November 29 Matthew Simpson (Rice)
    December 6 Alfred Chen (National Taiwan University)

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