WAGS / Spring 2013

16-17 February 2013

Western
Algebraic
Geometry
Symposium

• Location
• Schedule
• Social Events
• Organizers
• Registration
• Financial Assistance
• Accommodation
• Shuttle Service
• Transportation
• Contact Us
• Local Information
• About WAGS

• Federico Ardila, SFSU
  Two applications of combinatorics to (tropical) enumerative geometry

• Noah Giansiracusa, Berkeley
  The moduli space of stable rational curves---one G_a away from toric

• Ravi Vakil, Stanford
  The Grothendieck ring of varieties

• Chenyang Xu, Utah
  The dual complex of singularities

• Xinyi Yuan, Berkeley
  Noether Inequalities on algebraic surfaces and arithmetic surfaces

• Zhiwei Yun, Stanford
  Zeta function of a singular curve

All talks will take place in Galileo Hall, on the (small and easy to navigate) campus of Harvey Mudd College.

There will be a dinner celebration on the evening of Saturday, February 16, as listed in the schedule above. All registered participants are encouraged to attend.

This conference is hosted by Harvey Mudd College, and the local organizer is Dagan Karp.

If you have any questions, send an email to wags-at-math.hmc.edu. The postal address is

Department of Mathematics
Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, CA 91711

Please register as soon as you know that you will be attending. To register, fill out this simple form: http://goo.gl/2jdbT. You will be asked to provide your name, email, institution, position and whether or not you are requesting financial aid.

Financial support will be available for students, postdocs and otherwise unsupported faculty. Please register by Monday, January 14 to be considered for financial support.

We expect to communicate financial assistance decisions by January 16.

Conference Hotel: DoubleTree Ontario Airport
A block of rooms has been reserved at a group rate at the DoubleTree, Ontario Airport on the nights of Friday, February 15 and Saturday, February 16. This group will be available until January 25, 2013. Please mention the group WAGS when making reservations.

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Ontario Airport
222 North Vineyard Avenue
Ontario, California, 91764-4431, USA
TEL: 1-909-937-0900

Those who request funding should try to share a double room. If you have difficulty finding another person to share the room, please email us at wags-at-math.hmc.edu.

Alternative Hotels: As noted below, the conference hotel is not within walking distance of HMC. (It is a short drive, and WAGS is providing group transportation.) There is a group of hotels within walking distance of HMC, but they are not highly rated. This includes a Howard Johnson, and others in its immediate vicinity. If Claremont has a less desirable neighborhood, higher in crime and so forth, this is it. However, if you would prefer a less fancy hotel, next to the freeway, but very cheap, and walking distance to campus, then feel free to make that choice. You are advised to check travel websites, such as these reviews on TripAdvisor, before doing so.

Shuttle Service: The conference hotel's proximity to the Ontario airport makes travel between hotel and airport trivial, and travel between hotel and conference nontrivial. (It's often the reverse.) To facilitate travel between the hotel and HMC, shuttle service will provide group transportation for everyone (in groups up to 45 per trip). Scheduled departure times are as follows.

Saturday Morning
Trip 1: Depart Hotel 8:15am -- Arrive HMC 8:30am
Trip 2: Depart Hotel 8:45am -- Arrive HMC 9:00am

Saturday Evening
Trip 1: Depart HMC 7:30pm -- Arrive Hotel 7:45pm
Trip 2: Depart HMC 8:00pm -- Arrive Hotel 8:15pm

Sunday Morning
Trip 1: Depart Hotel: 8:30am -- Arrive HMC 8:45am
Trip 2: Depart Hotel: 9:00am -- Arrive HMC 9:15am

Sunday Afternoon
Trip 1: Depart HMC 12:30pm -- Arrive Hotel 12:45pm
Trip 2: Depart HMC 1:00pm -- Arrive Hotel 1:15pm

By plane: It is highly recommended that you fly into Ontario Airport (ONT), which is close to HMC and the conference hotel. ONT is a convenient, small, easy to navigate regional airport. Southwest serves ONT, often with reasonable rates.

If you choose to fly into another airport in the greater Los Angeles area, such as Bob Hope Airport (BUR), John Wayne Airport (SNA), or Los Angeles International (LAX), know that your travel will be significant between the airport and HMC. (The distance between LAX and HMC is roughly 50 miles.)

By car: Any driver surely has their own map, but note that it is easy to drive to HMC via either the 10 or 210 Freeways.

By public transportation: If you fly into LAX, or are traveling from Los Angeles, public transportation is a viable alternative. From LAX, take the Union Station FlyAway bus, which makes no stops between LAX and Union Station. From Union Station, take the San Bernardino Line MetroLink Train to Claremont Station, which is a nice short walk away from HMC. Trains run on a limited schedule on weekends, so check the schedule carefully.

Parking: Parking for WAGS is free, and participants should use the lot located at the intersection of Dartmouth Ave. and Foothill Blvd, which is accessible by Foothill Blvd only. This lot is at the Northwest corner of campus and is made visible on the campus map by clicking on the "parking" option.

• Weather: Current weather conditions can be checked here.
• City of Claremont web site
• Harvey Mudd College has a webpage for visitors. It contains links to campus maps, direction to campus, etc.

The Western Algebraic Geometry Seminar traces back its origin to the Utah - UCLA Algebraic Geometry Seminar started in 1989 by H. Clemens, D. Gieseker, M. Green, J. Kollár, and R. Lazarsfeld. Later on, it became the Utah - UCLA - Chicago Algebraic Geometry Seminar.

The institutions currently participating in WAGS include Colorado State University, Stanford University, the University of British Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of Utah, Harvey Mudd College, the University of Washington, UC Riverside, UCLA, University of Arizona, University of Colorado, and more.

Support for the Seminar is provided by NSF and the participating institutions.

WAGS meets twice per year and congregates an international group of roughly 100 mathematicians, from students to experts in the field of Algebraic Geometry. A history of meetings within the last 10 years or so includes Fall 2002 (Utah), Spring 2003 (Stanford), Fall 2003 (Vancouver), Spring 2004 (Utah), Fall 2004 (Colorado State), Spring 2005 (Washington), Fall 2005 (Utah), Spring 2006 (Berkeley), Fall 2006 (Utah), Spring 2007 (Washington), Fall 2007 (Colorado), Fall 2008 (Utah), Spring 2009 (Berkeley). More recent meetings and a comprehensive archive of all things WAGS can be found on the central wags home page http://www.wagsymposium.org/.