Brown University Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminars, Spring 2008 (academic year 07/08)
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Contact: Alex Kontorovich (alexk), Joe Silverman (jhs), Dan Abramovich (abrmovic)
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title | Special days and times are indicated in the table.
| 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) | 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 |