Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Fall 2007: Tuesdays 3:00-4:00

The Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar will alternate between MIT (2-142) and Harvard (Science Center 507).  For directions to Building 2 at MIT, click here.  For directions to the Harvard Science Center, click here.  You can see last semester's seminars here.

Schedule of upcoming talks:
Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).

September 18
 Joseph Landsberg
(Texas A&M)
 MIT
 Rigidity of homogeneous varieties
September 25
 Bjorn Poonen
(UC Berkeley)
 Harvard
 Existence of rational points on smooth projective varieties
October 2
 Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas (Tufts)
 Harvard Maps between moduli spaces of vector bundles and the theta divisor
October 9
 Angela Gibney (U Penn)
 MIT A new candidate for the nef cone of the moduli space of n-pointed curves of genus g
October 16
 Dawei Chen (Harvard)
 MIT Mori's program on the Kontsevich space of stable maps
October 23
 Joe Harris (Harvard)
 Harvard Geometry of Severi varieties
October 30
 Maksym Fedorchuk (Harvard)
 MIT Linear sections of the Severi variety and moduli of curves
November 6
 Brendan Hassett (Rice)
 Harvard Density of integral points over function fields
November 13
 Matthias Schuett (Harvard)
 MIT Calabi-Yau threefolds as fibre products of rational elliptic surfaces
November 20
 Noam Elkies (Harvard)  3:00 p.m.
 Harvard How many points can a genus-2 curve have?
November 20
 Ravi Vakil (Stanford) 
4:30 p.m.  Science Center 507
 Harvard
 Reimagining universal covers and fundamental groups in algebraic and arithmetic geometry
November 27
 Junecue Suh (MIT) MIT Plurigenera of general type surfaces in mixed characteristic
December 4
 Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk (Purdue)
 Harvard Resolution algorithm in characteristic zero and its possible extension in positive characteristic
December 11
 David Smyth (Harvard) MIT Compact Moduli of Singular Curves
December 11 Allen Knutson (UC Berkeley)
4:30 p.m.  (MIT 2-142)
 MIT
 Branchvarieties and automatically reduced flat limits
December 18
 Sebastian Casalaina-Martin (Harvard) Harvard The moduli space of cubic threefolds via degenerations of the intermediate Jacobian


This seminar is being organized by James McKernan (MIT), Kiran Kedlaya (MIT), Joe Harris (Harvard), and Sebastian Casalaina-Martin (Harvard).  The web page is maintained by Sebastian Casalaina-Martin; it was shamelessly copied from Izzet Coskun's page, which in turn was shamelessly copied from Jason Starr's page, which in turn was shamelessly copied from Ravi Vakil's page, which in turn was shamelessly copied from Pasha Belorousski's page at the University of Michigan. This seminar is supported in part by grants from the NSF. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.