Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Seminars are usually on Wednesdays, 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 203.
Note the special meeting time and location on Wednesday, December 1!

October 6

David Ben-Zvi (University of Chicago)
Solitons and algebraic geometry

October 13

David Ben-Zvi (University of Chicago)
Solitons and algebraic geometry II

October 20

Fabien Morel ( l'Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot)
Adams spectral sequence and Milnor's conjectures

October 27

Hugh Thomas (University of Chicago)
Multiplying cycles in toric varieties

November 3

Bangere Purnaprajna (University of Kansas)
Vector bundles and Linear series on Surfaces and 3-folds

November 4-Thursday, 4:30 PM
Joint topology/geometry/algebraic geometry seminar

Amnon Neeman (The Australian National University, Canberra)
Smirnov's work on the standard conjectures

November 10

Roman Bezrukavnikov (University of Chicago)
Basic representation theory of $p$-adic groups (after Bernstein)

November 11-Thursday, 1:30 PM, at Eckhart 207

Gregory Mikhalkin (Harvard University)
Geometry of holomorphic amoebas and real algebraic geometry
Abstract

November 17

Roman Bezrukavnikov (University of Chicago)
Basic representation theory of $p$-adic groups (after Bernstein) II

November 19- Friday, 4:00 PM, at Eckhart 203

Andrey Levin
Kronecker double series and the dilogarithm

November 24

No meeting scheduled

December 1 meeting at 2:30 PM, in Eckhart 206

Kapil Paranjape
Two paths to infinitude of Griffith's group

December 8

Rebecca Field
On the Chow ring of the classifying space BSO(2n,C)