Date Name Topic

9/3                 organisational meeting

9/10             Sophia Huellstrunk                     An Intro to Morse Theory, with application to the Lefschetz Theorem on  Hyperplane Sections

9/17             Victor Alexeev                               Homological Mirror Symmetry and Quantum Groups

9/24 Mattie Ji                                            Negative K-theory of Projective Curves and Normal Surfaces     

10/1 Fall break

10/8 Ana Pavlaković                              An Introduction to p-Adic Integration

10/15          Ana Pavlaković                              The Original Proof of Batyrev's Theorem

10/22 Mattie Ji                                            Gm-Loop Spaces in Algebraic Geometry

10/29 Anson Law                                       From Quiver Varieties to Quantum Groups

11/5 Leo Chang                                        Categorification of DT theory

11/12          Colton Griffin

11/19          Andres Fernandez Herrero   Pre-talk

11/26          Thanksgiving Break

12/3             Andres Fernandez Herrero   Meromorphic Hitchin Fibration on Stable Pointed Curves