## stanford algebraic geometry seminar 2017-18

Fridays 4-5 pm in 383-N (with exceptions)

 September 29 Samuel Grushevsky (Stony Brook University) Geometry of compactified moduli of cubic threefolds October 6 Felix Janda (University of Michigan) Genus two curves on quintic threefolds October 13 no seminar (WAGS weekend) Weekend of October 14-15 Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium, at UCLA October 20 Remy van Dobben de Bruyn (Columbia University) Dominating varieties by liftable ones October 27 Jason Lo (Cal State Northridge) The effect of Fourier-Mukai transforms on slope stability on elliptic fibrations November 10 November 17 (probably no seminar, Ravi away) November 24 no seminar (Thanksgiving break) December 1 Daniel Litt (Columbia University) Galois actions on fundamental groups January 19 Pablo Solis (Stanford) Hunting Vector Bundles on $\mathbf{P}^1 \times \mathbf{P}^1$ January 26 Izzet Coskun (UIC) The geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves on surfaces February 2 Katrina Honigs (Utah) Fourier-Mukai partners of Enriques and bielliptic surfaces in positive characteristic February 9 Junliang Shen (ETH) K3 categories, cubic 4-folds, and the Beauville-Voisin conjecture February 16 Michael Viscardi (Berkeley) Quantum cohomology and 3D mirror symmetry February 23 Roya Beheshti (Washington U. St. Louis) Moduli spaces of rational curves on hypersurfaces March 9 Yongbin Ruan (Michigan) The structure of higher genus Gromov-Witten invariants of quintic 3-fold April 13 Andrei Caldararu (Wisconsin) Computing a categorical Gromov-Witten invariant April 20 Daniel Halpern-Leistner (Cornell) What is wall-crossing? April 27 Sean Howe Motivic random variables and random matrices May 4 (3-4 pm, in 380-W) Isabel Vogt (MIT) Interpolation problems for curves in projective space May 4 (4:30-5:30 pm, in 383-N) Eric Larson (MIT) The Maximal Rank Conjecture May 11 Sheldon Katz (UIUC) (joint with physics) May 18 (3-4 pm) Dori Bejleri (Brown) Stable pair compactifications of the moduli space of degree one del Pezzo surfaces via elliptic fibrations May 18 (4:30-5:30 pm) Francois Greer (Stony Brook) Elliptic fibrations in the presence of singularities May 25 (3-4 pm, location TBA) Soren Galatius (Stanford) $M_g$, $M_g^{trop}$, the Grothendieck-Teichmuller group, and Kontsevich’s complex of graphs May 25 (4:30-5:30 pm) Tathagata Basak (Iowa State) A complex ball quotient and the monster