Talks 2018

2018-02-14

Reading Seminar - Erik Paemurru

Affine varieties abstractly, as a pair of a top space and functions on it;

2018-02-21

Reading Seminar - Erik Paemurru

Morphisms of abstract affine varieties;

2018-02-27

Research Talk - Erik Paemurru

Birational models of terminal sextic double solids

2018-03-07

Reading Seminar - Tim Grange

Finite maps, Noether normalization, some exercises from 5.5

2018-03-14

Reading Seminar - Tiago Guerreiro

Dimension 6.1, 6.2, some exercises from 6.5 or Gathmann

2018-03-22 (Thursday, 1pm, SCH0.05)

Reading Seminar - Luis José Santana Sanchez

Dimension 6.3, 6.4.

2018-04-12

Reading Seminar - Luis José Santana Sanchez

1.1 Local ring of a point, 1.2 Tangent space, 1.3 Intrinsic nature of Tangent space

2018-04-18

Reading Seminar - Laura Mallinson

1.4 Singular points, 1.5 Tangent cone

2018-04-25

Reading Seminar - Erik Paemurru

3.1 Codimension one subvarieties. Fractional ideal sheaves.

2018-05-02

Reading Seminar - Luis José Santana Sanchez

4.1 Blowup in Projective Space. 4.2 Local Blowup,

2018-05-23

Reading Seminar - Luis José Santana Sanchez

4.3 Subvarieties and Blowups, 4.4 Exceptional Subvarieties.

2018-05-30

Reading Seminar - Tim Grange

More on Blowups following Gathmann.

2018-06-06 (N 3.17)

Reading Seminar - Tim Grange

5. Normal Varieties

Chapter §3

2018-06-13

Reading Seminar - Tiago Guerreiro

1.1 Weil Divisors and Principal Divisors; The class group.

2018-06-20

Reading Seminar - Tiago Guerreiro

Intersection Multiplicities, Bezout's Theorem.

2018-10-17

Reading Seminar - Laura Mallinson

1.2 Locally Principal Divisors (Cartier Divisors)

2018-10-24

Reading Seminar - Luis José Santana Sanchez

1.4 Divisors and Rational Maps. 1.5 Linear System of a Divisor.

2018-11-07

Reading Seminar - Tim Grange

Hilbert Functions and Hilbert Polynomials

2018-11-14

Reading Seminar - Tim Grange

Hilbert Functions and Hilbert Polynomials (Continuation)

2018-11-21

Reading Seminar - Ronan Kerr

Differential Forms

2018-11-28

Reading Seminar - Ronan Kerr

Differential Forms (Continuation)