Summer Graduate School
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Location: | UC Berkeley |
Show List of Lecturers
- Izzet Coskun (University of Illinois, Chicago)
- Eric Larson (Brown University)
- Hannah Larson (University of California, Berkeley)
- Isabel Vogt (Brown University)
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- Carl Lian (Tufts University)

In the last few years, there have been extraordinary developments in many aspects of curve theory. Beginning with many examples in low genus, this summer school will introduce the participants to the background behind these developments in the following areas:
- moduli spaces of stable curves
- Brill–Noether theory
- the extrinsic geometry of the curves in projective space
We will also include an introduction to some open problems at the forefront of these active areas.
School Structure
There will be two one-hour lectures and two problem sessions each day.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of algebraic geometry up to the level of the Riemann–Roch and Riemann–Hurwitz theorems for curves. (These theorems appear, for example, in Hartshorne’s Algebraic Geometry as Theorem IV.1.3 and Corollary IV.2.4; or in Sections 2.3 and 2.1 in Griffiths–Harris Principles of Algebraic Geometry).
Application Procedure
For eligibility and how to apply, see the Summer Graduate Schools homepage.
Moduli spaces of curves
canonical curves
linear series
Brill–Noether theory
degeneration
Deformation Theory
14H51 - Special divisors on curves (gonality, Brill-Noether theory)
14H60 - Vector bundles on curves and their moduli [See also 14D20, 14F06, 14J60]