Fridays 3:45-4:45 in 383-N (with exceptions)
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| September 25 at 3 pm | Mihnea Popa (Northwestern) | Positivity for Hodge modules and geometric applications |
| October 2 | Tony Pantev (U Penn) | Symplectic geometry, foliations, and potentials |
| October 17-18 weekend | Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (at the University of Washington) | Aravind Asok (USC), Yiwei She (Columbia), Rekha Thomas (UW), Nikolaos Tziolas (University of Cyprus), Alena Pirutka (Courant), Brian Osserman (UC Davis), Valery Alexeev (U Georgia) |
| October 23 | no seminar | |
| October 30 | Alex Perry (Harvard) | Categorical joins |
| November 13 | Zijun Zhou (Columbia) | Relative orbifold Donaldson-Thomas theory and local gerby curves |
| November 20 (2:30-3:30) | Vikraman Balaji (Chennai Mathematical Institute) | Degeneration of moduli of Higgs bundles on curves |
| November 20 (3:45-4:45) | Jose Rodriguez (Chicago) | Numerically computing Galois groups with Bertini.m2 |
| November 27 | no seminar (Thanksgiving break) | |
| December 4 (2:30-3:30, because of the department party) | Yukinobu Toda (Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe) | Non-commutative deformations and Donaldson-Thomas invariants |
| January 5 (Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar outside speaker), in 383-H | Aaron Landesman (Harvard) | Interpolation of Projective Varieties |
| January 15 (joint Algebraic Geometry – Number theory seminar), 2:30-3:30 | Tonghai Yang (Wisconsin) | Generating series of arithmetic divisors on a Shimura variety of unitary type (n-1, 1) |
| January 15 | Sheldon Katz (UIUC) | Stable pair invariants of elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds and Jacobi forms |
| January 22 (joint Algebraic Geometry – Number theory seminar) | Jacob Tsimerman (Toronto) | Bounding 2-torsion in class groups |
| January 29 | Vivek Shende (Berkeley) | Cluster varieties from Legendrian knots |
| April 15 | Izzet Coskun (UIC) | Birational geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves on surfaces |
| April 29 | Zhiwei Yun (Stanford) | Intersection numbers and higher derivatives of L-functions for function fields |
| Thursday May 12, 4:30 pm in 380-W | Shouwu Zhang (Princeton) | Rational points: ABC conjecture and Szpiro’s conjecture (first in a Distinguished Lecture Series) |
| May 13, 2:30 pm in 383-N | Shouwu Zhang (Princeton) | Torsion points and preperiodic points: Manin—Mumford’s conjecture and its dynamical analogue (second in a Distinguished Lecture Series) |
| Monday May 16, 4 pm in 384-H | Shouwu Zhang (Princeton) | CM points and derivatives of L-dunctions: Andre—Oort’s conjecture and Colmez’ conjecture (third in a Distinguished Lecture Series) |
| May 20 (joint with the Informal Geometry and Topology Seminar) | Ronen Mukamel (Rice) | Equations for real multiplication in genus two and applications to Teichmuller curves |
| May 27 | Colleen Robles (Duke) | Degenerations of Hodge structures |
Fall 2016 speakers: Christian Schnell (Stony Brook), Giulia Sacca (Stony Brook), and (although he doesn’t know it yet) Michael Kemeny (Stanford)
Algebraic Geometry at Stanford 