## stanford algebraic geometry seminar 2014-15

Winter and spring Fridays 3:45-4:45 in 383-N

Fall:  Fridays 4:30-5:30 in 383-N (with exceptions)

 September 26 at 4 pm Jarod Alper (ANU) Associated forms in classical invariant theory October 3 no seminar October 10 no seminar (WAGS weekend) October 11-12 Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (University of Idaho) Christine Berkesch Zamaere, Jim Carlson , Giulio Caviglia, Dusty Ross, Karl Schwede, Sofia Tirabassi October 17 no seminar October 24 at 4:15 pm Jim Bryan (UBC) Donaldson-Thomas theory of local elliptic surfaces via the topological vertex October 31 at 4:30 pm Nasko Atanasov (Harvard) Interpolation and vector bundles on curves November 7 at 4:30 pm Yefeng Shen (Stanford) WDVV equations and Ramanujan identities November 14 at 4:30 pm Yiwei Shi (Chicago) The Shafarevich conjecture for K3 surfaces November 21 at 4:30 pm Sabin Cautis (UBC) Categorical Heisenberg actions on Hilbert schemes of points November 28 no seminar (Thanksgiving break) December 5 Francois Charles (Paris-Sud and MIT) Geometric boundedness results for K3 surfaces January 9 Dan Edidin (Missouri) Strong regular embeddings and the geometry of hypertoric stacks January 16 Evan O’Dorney (Harvard) Canonical rings of $\mathbf{Q}$-divisors on $\mathbf{P}^1$ January 23 Mark Shoemaker (Utah) A proof of the LG/CY correspondence via the crepant resolution conjecture January 30, 3:20-4:20 Radu Laza (Stony Brook) Moduli of degree 4 K3 surfaces revisited January 30, 4:30-5:30 Jack Hall (ANU) A generalization of Luna’s etale slice theorem February 13 Alessandro Chiodo (Jussieu) Néron models of Picard groups by Picard groups February 14-15 conference on “Moduli spaces of curves and maps” (more details later) February 20 Daniel Murfet (USC) Computing with hypersurfaces February 27, 3:20-4:20 Srinivas (TIFR) Etale motivic cohomology and algebraic cycles February 27, 4:30-5:30 Sándor Kovács (Washington) Projectivity of the moduli space of stable log-varieties February 28 – March 1 Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (at UC Davis) April 3 Jie Zhou Counting higher genus curves in local $\mathbf{P}^2$ via mirror symmetry April 10 Y.P. Lee (Utah) A + B model in conifold transitions for Calabi–Yau threefolds April 17 Anand Patel (Boston College) Algebraic cohomology of Hurwitz spaces May 1 Simion Filip (U Chicago) Hodge theory and arithmetic in Teichmuller dynamics Monday May 4, 5 pm, 384-H (Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar) Adrian Zahariuc (Harvard) Specialization of Quintic Threefolds to the Secant Variety May 8 Joe Rabinoff (Georgia Tech) Integration on wide opens and uniform Manin–Mumford May 15 Andrei Caldararu (Wisconsin) Algebraic proofs of degenerations of Hodge-de Rham complexes May 22 no seminar (slot used by visitor of Yasha Eliashberg) May 29 Alex Perry (Harvard) Derived categories of Gushel–Mukai varieties Monday June 1, 4 pm, 383-N (joint with symplectic geometry seminar) Tom Coates (Imperial College London) Mirror Symmetry and Fano Manifolds