Southern California Algebraic Geometry Seminar - Spring 2020

Date: Saturday, February 29, 2020

Place: UCSD, Applied Physics and Mathematics APM 6402

Registration

You may be able to find visitor parking either in Gilman Parking Structure (222 visitor spaces) or Pangea Parking Structure (145 visitor spaces). The walk from either parking structure to Applied Physics and Mathematics is about 15 minutes. 

Speakers:

        Fabio Bernasconi (Utah) - On del Pezzo fibrations in positive characteristic

       Nathaniel Bottman (USC) - Functoriality for the Fukaya category and a compactified moduli space of pointed vertical lines in C^2

       David Stapleton (UCSD) - Rationality & Irrationality - Specialization & Obstruction

       Maria Yakerson (Regensburg) - The motive of the Hilbert scheme of infinite affine space

  Tentative Schedule:

          10:00 - 11:00        Fabio Bernasconi 

        11:00 - 11:30        Break

        11:30 - 12:30        Nathaniel Bottman

        12:30 - 14:00        Lunch

        14:00 - 15:00        David Stapleton

        15:00 - 15:30        Break

        15:30 - 16:30        Maria Yakerson

        17:30 - ??                 Dinner (restaurant to be determined)