Southern California Algebraic Geometry Seminar - Fall 2009

Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009

Place: University of Southern California, Taper Hall of Humanities Room 102

Poster

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.