WAGS Spring 2022

Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium


April 22-24, 2022


Colorado State University

Speakers

Schedule

Friday, April 22
Location: Weber Hall room 223

4:00 - 4:50 PM: Mini-talks for undergraduates, featuring Jordan Ellenberg, Sarah Frei, and Patricio Gallardo

5:00 PM: Pizza!

5:30 PM: Panel discussion: Life With a Math Major

  • Moderator: Vance Blankers

  • Panelists include Amie Bray (CSU), Juanita Duque Rosero (Dartmouth), Tafari James (University of Washington), and Douglas Ortego (Google).

Saturday, April 23

Location: Engineering building room 100

8:30 - 9:00 AM: Coffee

9:00 - 10:00 AM: Jordan Ellenberg, Sparsity of rational points on moduli spaces

10:30 - 11:30 AM: Cynthia Vinzant, Determinantal representations and the principal minor map

Lunch Break

1:30 - 2:30 PM: Ravi Vakil, What is algebraic geometry?

3:00 - 4:00 PM: Patricio Gallardo, Variation of stability for moduli spaces of unordered points in the plane

4:00 - 5:00 PM: Tyler Kelly, Open Mirror Symmetry for Landau-Ginzburg models

Sunday, April 24

Location: Engineering building room 100

8:30 - 9:00 AM: Coffee

9:00 - 10:00 AM: Sarah Frei, Reduction of Brauer classes on K3 surfaces

10:30-11:30 AM: Burt Totaro, Varieties of general type with small volume

About WAGS

WAGS is a twice-yearly meeting of algebraic geometers in the western half of the United States and Canada that traces its origins back to the Utah-UCLA Algebraic Geometry Seminar started in 1989.

For more information about WAGS, please visit www.wagsymposium.org

Diversity

We hope to broaden the community of algebraic geometers. All are welcome to attend. We especially encourage participation from women and members of groups traditionally under-represented in mathematics.

Location

The meeting will be held at Colorado State University, in Fort Collins, Colorado. Click here for a campus map and locator. The math building, Weber Hall, is on the oval in the northeast corner of campus. The Friday evening events will be held in Weber room 223, and the Saturday and Sunday events will be in room 100 of the Engineering building.

Registration and Financial Assistance

WAGS is partially supported by the National Science Foundation and by the Department of Mathematics and the College of Natural Sciences at Colorado State University; if you need funding, please apply when you register, and please register by March 20th, to allow us to allocate funding optimally.


Please help us keep organized by mailing your reimbursement claims by May 15th. We may run into trouble allocating funds for late submissions!

Accommodation

The following hotels are walking distance from the CSU campus:

For slightly more adventurous travelers Airbnb has several good options near campus.

Transportation

You can travel to Fort Collins by airplane or car:

    • By plane:

      • Denver International Airport (airport code DEN, also known informally as DIA) is served by most airlines. Once at the airport, you can rent a car (driving time is a little over an hour) or ride either the F.a.s.t. shuttle or the Groome Transportation shuttle to Fort Collins (reservation required).

      • Northern Colorado Regional Airport (airport code FNL) is closer to Fort Collins and has direct flights from Los Angeles via United, as well as from Burbank and Las Vegas with Avelo.

      • United has activated a bus service from DEN to the Fort Collins/Loveland airport. That is about 10 miles from campus - at which point you will need to get a taxi/uber/lyft.

    • By car: Major highways through Fort Collins are Interstate 25 and US 287.

Local information

It's fun in the Fort.

Local organizers

Local organization is by Jeff Achter, Renzo Cavalieri, Maria Gillespie, Jamie Juul, Rick Miranda, Chris Peterson and Mark Shoemaker. Send questions to pi@wagsymposium.org.