AGNES Fall 2016 took place Friday, November 4 through Sunday, November 6 at UMass Amherst.
The conference was made possible by support from the NSF, the UMass Department of Mathematics and Statistics, the UMass College of Natural sciences, Amherst College, and Mount Holyoke College.
Videos of talks
Nicolas Addington (University of Oregon). Some new rational cubic 4-folds. Talk
Asher Auel (Yale University). Stable rationality of conic bundle fourfolds. Talk
Ana-Maria Castravet (Northeastern University). The derived category of moduli spaces of pointed stable rational curves.Videos: Pre-talk Talk
Daniel Huybrechts (University of Bonn). The global Torelli theorem for cubic fourfolds via Kuznetsov's K3 category. Pre-Talk Talk
Aaron Pixton (MIT). Graph-counting relations in the tautological ring. Talk
Colleen Robles (Duke University). Characterization of Gross's Calabi-Yau type variations of Hodge structure by characteristic forms. Pre-Talk Talk
David Treumann (Boston College). Betti spectral curves. Talk
Giancarlo Urzúa (PUC Chile). On geography and moduli of surfaces of general type.Talk
Organizers: Paul Hacking, Eyal Markman, Jessica Sidman, and Tom Weston.
Contact: hacking@math.umass.edu
About AGNES: AGNES is a series of weekend workshops in algebraic geometry. One of our goals is to introduce graduate students to a broad spectrum of current research in algebraic geometry. AGNES is held twice a year at the participating universities in the Northeast.