Washington University in St. Louis
November 4-5, 2023
Speakers
Emelie Arvidsson (University of Utah)
Chiara Damiolini (University of Texas at Austin)
Brendan Hassett (Brown University)
Aaron Landesman (Harvard University)
Robert Lazarsfeld (Stony Brook University)
Alexander Perry (University of Michigan)
Farbod Shokrieh (University of Washington)
Location: Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis
Talks: Wrighton Hall 300
Lunch: If you reserved a boxed lunch, you can pick it up at Schnuck Pavilion
Poster Session and reception: Anheuser-Busch room, Knight Center
Click here for a map of the campus and the closest parking garage.
Schedule
Saturday, November 4
9:00 - 9:30: Coffee and registration
9:30 - 10:30: Robert Lazarsfeld: Measures of association between algebraic varieties
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee
11:00 - 12:00: Farbod Shokrieh: Arakelov invariants and non-archimedean geometry
12:00-1:30: Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:30: Chiara Damiolini: Parahoric Bruhat-Tits from Galois covers
2:30 - 3:00: Coffee
3:00 - 4:00: Alexander Perry: The period-index conjecture for abelian threefolds
4:15 - 6:00: Poster session & Reception (see titles/abstracts here)
Sunday, November 5
8:15 - 8:45: Coffee
8:45 - 9:45: Aaron Landesman: Canonical representations of surface groups
9:45-10:15: Coffee
10:15-11:15: Emelie Arvidsson: The singularities of the minimal model program in positive characteristic
11:15-11:30: Break
11:30-12:30: Brendan Hassett: Rationality criteria for cubic hypersurfaces
Note: There will be a colloquium talk by Robert Lazarsfeld on Friday November 3 at 4pm. (Location: Busch Hall, Room 100, tea: 3:30pm in Cupples I, Room 200)
Parking Information:
Visitors can park for free in any yellow space in surface lots or garages (excluding the DUC) throughout the weekend. To open garage gates, you will still need to pull a ticket but you won’t be charged upon exiting. Here is the campus parking map.
Getting to the campus
The closest MetroLink station to the lecture hall (Wrighton Hall 300) is the University city-Big Bend station. If you are staying at Clayton Plaza, Le Meridien, or Homewood Suites, you can take the Metro transit to get to the campus. If you are staying at SpringHill Suites, then you can take the number 2 bus (it does not run frequently on weekends) or take the Metro transit.
Registration:
WAGS is partially supported by the National Science Foundation and by Washington University in St. Louis.
We ask that all participants fill out the registration form to help us with NSF reporting; registration for WAGS is free:
Registration. Note that funding requests received by August 28 will receive full consideration.
Poster Session:
There will be a poster session on Saturday November 4. If you wish to present a poster, please state so in your conference registration form. Poster Abstracts.
Accommodation:
Here are a few hotels which are either withing walking distance from the campus or accessible by metro/bus:
Clayton Plaza (7750 Carondelete Avenue): A block of rooms has been reserved. The group code for the block is WAGS. In order to be included in the block, you must make your reservation by October 13 using the link https://bookings.travelclick.com/97426?groupID=4014010 . Complimentary hot breakfast is included. The rate is $126 + tax.
SpringHill Suites St. Louis Brentwood (1231 Strassner Drive, Brentwood, MO). A block of rooms has been reserved. Complementary free parking and hot breakfast is included. Please use the link https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=1695064476267&key=GRP&app=resvlink .The cutoff date is October 5. The rate is $139+tax.
Homewood Suites by Hilton (8040 Clayton Rd.). Reservation: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/wagsconferencenov2023/. The Cutoff date is October 4. A complimentary hot breakfast buffet is included with the hotel reservation. The rate is $159-$169+tax.
Le Meridien (7730 Bonhomme, Clayton): Please use the link https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=1691442320425&key=GRP&app=resvlink. Breakfast is not included with your reservation. The cutoff date for booking is October 3. The rate is $159+tax.
Moonrise (6177 Delmar Blvd): Walking distance to the campus
About WAGS:
WAGS is a twice-yearly meeting of algebraic geometers in the western half of the United States and Canada 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, Mark Shoemaker and Farbod Shokrieh. For more information about WAGS, please visit http://www.wagsymposium.org.
Diversity
We hope to broaden the community of algebraic geometers. All are welcome to attend. We especially encourage participation from women and members of groups traditionally under-represented in mathematics.
Community Agreement
WAGS aims to create an environment that is stimulating, supportive, and welcoming to all participants. We build that through our community, with each of us playing an active role in creating a positive environment. We ask you to be welcoming, respectful, and generous towards all attendees and recognize that it is your responsibility to ensure that your actions match your intent. Discriminatory, exclusionary, or harassing behavior has no place at WAGS. If you have experienced or witnessed behavior that makes you uncomfortable, please contact a member of the Organizing Council. All reports will be handled in the strictest confidentiality.