Time: 11am ET on Thursdays. Location: SC 232 (unless otherwise noted).
Here is a tentative schedule of the talks (these will be updated as we go along):
February 6 (Nathan): Kobayashi hyperbolicity and overview. Chapter 1 of [DR]. Notes
February 13 (Anda): Applications of Brody hyperbolicity + algebraic hyperbolicity. End of chapter 1 + beginning of chapter 2 of [DR]. Notes
February 20 (Andrew): Algebraic hyperbolicity and positivity of twists of the universal hypersurface. Rest of chapter 2 of [DR]. Notes
February 27: skip
March 6 (Duc): Jet spaces. Chapter 3.1 + 3.2 of [DR]. Notes
March 13 (Jit Wu): Jet differentials and bundles. Chapter 3.3 of [DR]. Notes
March 20: SPRING BREAK
March 27 (Ben): Curvature, positivity, and the Ahlfors-Schwarz lemma. First half of chapter 4 of [DR]. Notes
April 3 (Niven): General strategy for algebraic degeneracy. Rest of chapter 4 of [DR]. Notes
April 10 (Nathan): Hyperbolicity of generic surfaces in projective 3-space. Chapter 5 of [DR], part 1.
April 17 (Ben): Surfaces arguments of Bogomolov. Notes
April 24: CANCELED
May 1 (Nathan): Hyperbolicity continued...
References:
[DR] -- Hyperbolicity of Projective Hypersurfaces by Diverio and Rousseau