Past Seminars
Fall 2023 Schedule
Date Name Topic
09/13 Organizational Meeting
09/20 Emma Lennen Hilbert Schemes of Points on Surfaces
09/27 Andrew Kwon Toric Varieties and Hirzebruch-Jung Resolution
10/4 Graduate Event at the same time
10/11 Fall Break
10/18 Yi Wang Integral Points on Markoff Surfaces
10/25 Daebeom Choi Introduction to Local Global Principle via del Pezzo surfaces
11/1 Emma Lennen Perverse Sheaves and D-modules
11/8 Matthew Stevens Ultraproducts and the Ax-Grothendieck Theorem
11/15 no talk
11/22 Thanksgiving!
11/29 Ana Pavlaković What is a Virtual Fundamental Class?
12/6 Ana Pavlaković Introduction to Gromov-Witten Theory or One Way of Counting Curves
Spring 2023 Schedule
Date Name Topic
02/03 Yi Wang Universal deformation rings and character varieties
02/10 Andrew Kwon Fields series: Hironaka and Resolution of Singularities
02/17 Deependra Singh Basic setup of Etale Cohomology
02/24 Marielle Ong Buildings (Bruhat-Tits) - I
03/03 No seminar
03/10 Spring break
03/17 Marielle Ong Buildings (Bruhat-Tits) - II
03/24 Thomas Brazelton Inflection Points of Curves in Projective Space
03/31 Connor Cassady Mazur's theorem on torsion of elliptic curves
04/07 Avik Chakravarty VOA and their Representations
04/14 Yingdi Qin Gerbes and Gerbes with connections
04/21 Svetlana Makarova Quiver moduli and effective global generation
Fall 2023 Schedule
Date Name Topic
09/15 Emma Lennen Mori Theory for Surfaces
09/22 Andrew Kwon An Advertisement for Anabelian Geometry
09/29 Ben Keigwin Condensed/Pyknotic Mathematics
10/06 Fall Break
10/13 Deependra Singh Division algebras and maximal subfields
10/20 Emma Lennen Del Pezzo Surfaces
10/27 No seminar
11/03 Yi Wang Arithmetic Dynamics
11/10 No seminar
11/17 Souparna Purohit Arithmetic Intersections on Modular Curves
11/24 Thanksgiving
12/01 Marielle Ong Higgs Bundles and Hitchin Fibration
12/08 Chiara Damiolini Conformal Blocks