Southern California Algebraic Geometry Seminar - Fall 2009
Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009
Place: University of Southern California, Taper Hall of Humanities Room 102
Speakers:
Dan Dugger (UOregon) - Motivic stable homotopy groups (Abstract)
Tom Graber (CalTech) - Relative Gromov-Witten invariants and Local Gromov-Witten invariants (Abstract)
Ravi Vakil (Stanford) - The ring of invariants of n points on the projective line (Abstract)
Mihai Putinar (UCSB) - A duality approach to Positivstellensatze in real algebraic geometry (Abstract)
Streaming video (The talks will be webcast)
Tentative Schedule:
10:00 - 11:00 Tom Graber
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Dan Dugger
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Ravi Vakil
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:30 Mihai Putinar
17:30 - ?? Dinner (Antequera de Oaxaca; 5200 Melrose Ave., SW corner of Melrose and Wilton)
Register - please register so we know how many people to expect (there will also be a dinner afterwards)
Organizers: Aravind Asok (USC) and Dragos Oprea (USCD)
E-mail: So. Cal. Alg. Geom.