Brown University Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminars, Spring 2008 (academic year 07/08)
Mondays at 4 (Foxboro), Fridays at 3 (Kassar 205)

Contact: Alex Kontorovich (alexk), Joe Silverman (jhs), Dan Abramovich (abrmovic)

Schedule of upcoming talks:

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

Special days and times are indicated in the table.
Date & Time Speaker Title
Monday, January 28, 3:00-4:00 V. Toledano Laredo (Northeastern and IAS) Stability conditions and Stokes factors
Monday, February 4, 4:00-5:00 Hee Oh (Brown) Rational points and Adelic periods
Friday, February 8, 3:00-4:00 Chenyang Xu (Princeton) Degenerations of Rationally connected varieties
Monday, February 11, 4:00-5:00 David Rohrlich (BU) Compatible families of elliptic type
Friday, February 15, 3:00-4:00 Maksym Fedorchuk (Harvard) Linear sections of Severi varieties and the moduli space of curves
Monday, February 18 No seminar holiday
Friday, February 22, 3:00-4:00 Dan Abramovich (here) Counting curves with tangency conditions: comparison of approaches.
Monday, February 25, 4:00-5:00 Steve Lichtenbaum (here)
Zeta-functions and Euler characteristics,
or
why the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer is misleading.
Friday, February 29, 3:00-4:00 Dawei Chen (Harvard) Mori's Program for the Kontsevich Moduli Space
Monday, March 3, 4:00-5:00 Mike Zieve (Rutgers) The lattice of subfields of K(x)
Friday, March 7, 3:00-4:00 Arend Bayer (Utah) Polynomial stability conditions
Monday, March 10, 4:00-5:00 Dan Abramovich (Here) Linearly reductive group schemes and reduction modulo p of coverings.
Friday, March 14, 3:00-4:00 TBA TBA
Monday, March 17, 4:00-5:00 Michael Rosen (here) Abelian varieties over number fields of infinite degree
Friday, March 21, 3:00-4:00 TBA TBA
Monday, March 24 no seminar Spring break
Friday, March 28 no seminar Spring break
Monday, March 31, 4:00-5:00 Ben Brubaker (MIT) Automorphic Forms on Arithmetic Covering Groups
Friday, April 4 , 3:00-4:00 Ilya Tyomkin, MIT Tropical curves, toric stacks, and enumerative geometry
Monday, April 7, time TBA Hillel Furstenberg Distinguished lecture series
Friday, April 11, 3:00-4:00 Jarod Alper (Stanford) A stack-theoretic approach to invariant theory
Monday, April 14, 4:00-5:00 Junecue Suh (MIT) Non-homeomorphic conjugates of connected Shimura varieties
Friday, April 18, 3:00-4:00 Spencer Bloch (Chicago) Mixed Hodge structures associated to renormalization in physics.
Monday, April 21, 4:00-5:00 James Borger (Australian National University) Witt vectors, Lambda-rings, and absolute algebraic geometry
Friday, April 25, 3:00-4:00 TBA TBA
Monday, April 28, 4:00-5:00 Xiaoqing Li (SUNY Buffalo, visiting Columbia) TBA
Monday, May 5, 4:00-5:00 Kumar Murty, Toronto TBA

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