FRAGMENT

SPRING 2011

Front Range Algebra, GeoMEtry and Number Theory Seminar

Colorado State University (CSU) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU)

Thursdays 3-5 PM

CSU Webber 201 and CU Mathematics 350

This is a seminar series intended to involve people in the Front Range interested in Algebra, GeoMEtry and Number Theory. The seminar will meet at either CSU (green) or   CU Boulder ("gold").  To see last semester's seminar, click here.

FOR NEXT SEMESTER'S SEMINAR, CLICK HERE

Schedule of upcoming talks:

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

January 20	CU	Bart Van Steirteghem (CUNY Medgar Evers College)	The invariant Hilbert scheme and equivariant degenerations of spherical modules
January 27	CU	Samuel Grushevsky (SUNY Stony Brook)	The locus of intermediate Jacobians of cubic threefolds
February 3	CU	Kiana Ross (University of Washington)	Rational curves and characterizations of projective space
February 10	CU	Markus Pflaum (University of Colorado)	Orbifold cup products and ring structures on Hochschild cohomologies
February 17	CU	Jesse Kass (University of Michigan)	The local structure of the compactified Jacobian
February 24	CU	Dawei Chen (University of Illinois at Chicago)	Geometry of Teichmueller curves
March 3	CU	Sukhendu Mehrotra (University of Wisconsin)	Moduli spaces of sheaves on K3 surfaces and deformations
March 3 (5-6 PM)	CU	Alex Kontorovich (SUNY Stony Brook)	Sieving in orbits
March 8 (4-5 PM)	CU	Thomas Tucker (University of Rochester)	Orbits of morphisms mod p
March 10	CU	Maksym Fedorchuk (Columbia University)	Modularity of log canonical models of the moduli space of stable curves
March 24	CSU	Aaron Bertram (University of Utah)	Tropical algebra and geometry
March 29 (TUESDAY 2-3 PM)	CSU	Arend Bayer (University of Connecticut)	Towards Bridgeland stability conditions on threefolds (and why you should care)
March 31	CU	Johan Martens (Aarhus University)	Toroidal orbifold compactifications of reductive groups and moduli of framed bundles
April 5 (TUESDAY 4-5 PM)	CU	Raman Parimala (Emory University)	A Hasse principle for function fields
April 7	CSU	Olivia Dumitrescu (University of California at Davis)	Approximations of Nagata’s conjecture
April 14	CSU	Melissa Liu (Columbia University)	Open Gromov-Witten invariants of toric Calabi-Yau 3-folds
April 15 (FRIDAY)	CSU	Dmitry Zakharov (Columbia University)	Real-normalized differentials and the geometry of the moduli space of pointed curves
April 21	CU	Graeme Wilkin (University of Colorado)	Moment map flows and the Hecke correspondence for quivers
April 28	CSU	Bryden Cais (Wisconsin)	Statistics of p-divisible groups over Fp
May 5	CSU	Dung Nguyen (Stanford University)	Characteristic numbers of genus one space curves

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This seminar is being organized by Renzo Cavalieri and Sebastian (Yano) Casalaina-Martin.  This webpage is yet another example of a shameless (indirect) copying of a webpage of Pasha Belorousski's at the University of Michigan.