University of California, Davis
April 27-28, 2024
Location:
All talks and poster session will be in Giedt Hall, see campus map.
Preliminary Schedule
Saturday, April 27
9:00 - 9:30: Refreshments and registration
9:30 - 10:30: Laura Escobar: Families of degenerations from mutations of polytopes
10:30 - 11:00: Break
11:00 - 12:00: Emanuele Macri: Hyper-Kähler manifolds and Lagrangian fibrations
12:00-1:30: Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:30: Julia Pevtsova: Local rigidity and regularity for categories of modular representations
2:30 - 3:00: Break
3:00 - 4:00: Eloísa Grifo: Zariski-Nagata Theorems
4:15 - 6:00: Poster session
Sunday, April 28
8:15 - 8:45: Refreshments
8:45 - 9:45: Sean Griffin: Affine Springer fibers and the Delta Conjecture
9:45-10:15: Break
10:15-11:15: Timothy Duff: Galois/Monodromy Groups in 3D Reconstruction
Titles and abstracts for the talks
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Registration:
WAGS is partially supported by the National Science Foundation and by University of California, Davis.
We ask that all participants fill out the registration form to help us with NSF reporting; registration for WAGS is free: Registration link
Registration deadline for funding requests: March 15, 2024.
Travel
Davis is on Interstate 80, about 12 miles west of Sacramento, 75 miles east of San Francisco, and 65 miles east of Berkeley.
By airplane:
The closest airport is Sacramento (SMF) which is 30 minutes by car from the Davis campus.
Davis Airporter is a shuttle service connecting Davis with Sacramento (SMF) and San Francisco (SFO) international airports.
By train:
Davis has an Amtrak station connected to Bay Area (Berkeley, Oakland, San Jose) and to Sacramento via Capitol Corridor. There are (much less frequent) long-distance trains such as California Zephyr or Coast Starlight: Amtrak.
By car:
See parking information below.
Accommodation:
The following hotels blocked off rooms for WAGS:
Best Western University Lodge - 123 B Street
The Vine - 223 D Street
Aggie Inn - 245 First Street , Group ID QD70K4
University Park Inn - 1111 Richards Blvd
Palm Court - 234 D Street, Group ID U41WK6N7
All hotels on the map
Parking Information:
UC Davis uses the AggiePark app for parking. There is no free parking on or near campus. Information about paying for Visitor Parking is available here: https://taps.ucdavis.edu/aggiepark
The parking lots closest to Giedt Hall are Visitor Parking Lot 47 and Pavillion Parking Structure.
Local organizers:
Send questions to egorskiy@math.ucdavis.edu.
Code of Conduct:
The Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium aims to create an environment that is stimulating, supportive, and welcoming to all participants. We build that environment through our community, with each of us playing an active role in creating a positive experience for all. We ask you to be welcoming, respectful, and generous towards all participants and to recognize that it is your responsibility to ensure that your actions match your intent.
While attending WAGS at UC Davis, all participants are expected to adhere to the UC Davis Code of Conduct. Please visit this link to learn more about reporting inappropriate behavior that you may have witnessed or experienced while participating in this event.
Campus Safety: links
About WAGS:
WAGS is a twice-yearly meeting of algebraic geometers in the Western half of North America that traces its origins back to the Utah-UCLA Algebraic Geometry Seminar started in 1989. Long term planning for WAGS is currently being organized by Nicolas Addington, Roya Beheshti Zavareh, María Angélica Cueto, José González, Dustin Ross, Karl Schwede, Farbod Shokrieh, and Mark Shoemaker. For more information about WAGS, visit http://www.wagsymposium.org.