Graduate Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Ben Gould
UIC
On 'A Young Person's Guide to Canonical Singularities' by Miles Reid
Abstract: We will cover Chapter I of Miles Reid's 'A Young Person's Guide to Canonical Singularities.' The paper begins with the motivation for the notion of a (complex quasiprojective) variety to have canonical singularities, and then surveys the general theory, most of which is valid in all dimensions, and some of which is valid only up to dimension 3. We will assume as known much of the material from Hartshorne's II.6 and will overlap somewhat with the ongoing seminar on resolution of singularities.
Wednesday March 13, 2019 at 3:00 PM in 712 SEO