Sixth Meeting Date: Saturday, March 10, 2012 Place: University of California San Diego, Applied Physics and Math Room 6402 Local Information: Parking next to the math department is free on weekends, Directions. In case you visited the department in the past, the elevator in the math building is not working, so you may have to take the stairs to the 6th floor. Register Speakers: Mark Gross (UCSD) - Mirror symmetry for rational surfaces and smoothing surface singularities (Abstract) Sasha Merkurjev (UCLA) - Algebraic cycles and norm varieties (Abstract) Burt Totaro (Cambridge) - Symmetric differentials and the fundamental group (Abstract) Kirsten Wickelgren (Harvard) - 2-Nilpotent real section conjecture (Abstract) Tentative Schedule: 10:00 - 11:00 Mark Gross 11:00 - 11:30 Break 11:30 - 12:30 Sasha Merkurjev 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:00 Burt Totaro 15:00 - 15:30 Break 15:30 - 16:30 Kirsten Wickelgren 17:30 - ?? Dinner (Karl Strauss Brewing Company in La Jolla) Register - please register so we know how many people to expect (there will also be a dinner afterwards) List of registered participants E-mail: So. Cal. Alg. Geom. |