Southern California Algebraic Geometry Seminar - Fall 2011

Date: Saturday, November 5, 2011

Place: University of California Los Angeles, Mathematics Sciences Building 6627

Parking: To access the math building, enter from the South on Westwood Blvd (drive past the Medical Center).

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Poster


Speakers:

Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine (Minnesota) - Stable quasimaps to GIT quotients (Abstract)

Alexander Duncan (UCLA) - Versal varieties and twisting (Abstract)

Aaron Lauda (USC) - Odd categorification and cohomology (Abstract)

Yu-jong Tzeng (Harvard) - Counting curves with arbitrary singularities on surfaces (Abstract)


Tentative Schedule:

10:00 - 11:00        Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine

11:00 - 11:30        Break

11:30 - 12:30        Alexander Duncan

12:30 - 14:00        Lunch

14:00 - 15:00        Aaron Lauda

15:00 - 15:30        Break

15:30 - 16:30        Yu-jong Tzeng

17:30 - ??                 Dinner (restaurant to be determined)

Register - please register so we know how many people to expect (there will also be a dinner afterwards).


Organizers: Aravind Asok (USC), Christian Haesemeyer (UCLA) and Dragos Oprea (USCD)