Southern California Algebraic Geometry Seminar Spring 2012

Date: Saturday, March 10, 2012

Place: University of California San Diego, Applied Physics and Math Room 6402

Local Information: Parking next to the math department is free on weekends, Directions. 

In case you visited the department in the past, the elevator in the math building is not working, so you may have to take the stairs to the 6th floor. 

Register

Poster

Speakers:

Mark Gross (UCSD) - Mirror symmetry for rational surfaces and smoothing surface singularities (Abstract)

Sasha Merkurjev (UCLA) -  Algebraic cycles and norm varieties (Abstract)

Burt Totaro (Cambridge) - Symmetric differentials and the fundamental group (Abstract)

Kirsten Wickelgren (Harvard) - 2-Nilpotent real section conjecture (Abstract)

Tentative Schedule:

10:00 - 11:00        Mark Gross

11:00 - 11:30        Break

11:30 - 12:30        Sasha Merkurjev 

12:30 - 14:00        Lunch

14:00 - 15:00        Burt Totaro

15:00 - 15:30        Break

15:30 - 16:30        Kirsten Wickelgren

17:30 - ??                  Dinner (Karl Strauss Brewing Company in La Jolla)

Register - please register so we know how many people to expect (there will also be a dinner afterwards)

E-mail: So. Cal. Alg. Geom.