Schedule, Notes/Handouts & Videos

Classical Algebraic Geometry Today January 26, 2009 - January 30, 2009

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Jan 26, 2009
Monday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

The Interpolation Problem
Richard Harris

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Applications of projective geometry to birational geometry
Yuri Tschinkel (New York University, Courant Institute)

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

The geography of irregular surfaces.
Rita Pardini (Università di Pisa)

Jan 27, 2009
Tuesday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Deformations of canonical pairs and Fano varieties
Christopher Hacon (University of Utah)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Quotients by finite equivalence relations
János Kollár (Princeton University)

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Periods and Moduli
Olivier Debarre

04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

The Hodge theory of character varieties
Mark de Cataldo

Jan 28, 2009
Wednesday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Counting curves in 3-folds
Richard Thomas (Imperial College, London)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Derived cateories and Chow groups of K3 surfaces
Daniel Huybrechts (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)

Jan 29, 2009
Thursday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

The Schottky problem
Samuel Grushevsky (State University of New York, Stony Brook)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Refined generic vanishing
Giuseppe Pareschi

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Main components of moduli spaces and log geometry.
Martin Olsson (University of California, Berkeley)

04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

Algebraic surfaces and hyperbolic geometry
Burt Totaro (University of California, Los Angeles)

Jan 30, 2009
Friday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Lie algebra actions on the cohomology of hyperquot schemes
Alina Marian (Northeastern University)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Four-dimensional analogues of K3 surfaces.
Kieran O'Grady

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Syzygies and Geometry
David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley)

04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

Equivalence problem for minimal rational curves
Jun-Muk Hwang