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The Stanford Algebraic Geometry Seminar usually meets Fridays at noon pacific time. date and time speaker title remarks (noon Pacific unless otherwise specified) (click for abstract) Mon. October 2, 2:30-3:30 (with 2-2:30 pretalk) Michael Temkin (HUJI) Wild ramification and geometry … Continue reading →

The Stanford Algebraic Geometry Seminar meets online, usually Fridays at noon pacific time. Register in advance for the seminar: https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvcOuprz8vHtbL2_TTgZzr-_UhGvnr1EGv Then attend the seminar:  https://stanford.zoom.us/w/95272114542 (pwd 362880) date and time speaker title links (noon Pacific unless otherwise specified) (click for … Continue reading →

The Stanford Algebraic Geometry Seminar meets online, usually Fridays at noon pacific time. Register in advance for the seminar: https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvcOuprz8vHtbL2_TTgZzr-_UhGvnr1EGv Then attend the seminar:  https://stanford.zoom.us/w/95272114542 (pwd 362880) date and time speaker title links (noon Pacific unless otherwise specified) (click for … Continue reading →

Click on the title to see the abstract (when available). Register in advance for the seminar:https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvcOuprz8vHtbL2_TTgZzr-_UhGvnr1EGv Password (new July 2020!):  362880 Date and Time (Pacific) Speaker Title April 3, 4 pm Will Sawin (Columbia) The Shafarevich conjecture for hypersurfaces in … Continue reading →

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(The seminar webpage is here.) Isabel Vogt (Stanford) September 27, 2019 Stability of normal bundles of space curves The normal bundle controls the deformation theory of a curve embedded in projective space. In this talk we study the stability of … Continue reading →

(The seminar webpage is here.) June Huh (Institute for Advanced Study) October 26, 2018 Distinguished Lecture 2 of 3: Kazhdan-Lusztig theory for matroids There is a remarkable parallel between the theory of Coxeter groups (think of the symmetric group or … Continue reading →

(The seminar webpage is here.) Michael Kemeny (Stanford) October 7, 2016 Syzygies, scrolls and Hurwitz spaces A famous conjecture of Mark Green predicts a close relationship between the geometry of a curve and the algebraic properties of its coordinate ring. Namely, the Clifford index of the curve should equal the length of the linear part […]

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  Fridays 4-5 pm in 383-N (with exceptions) Click on the title to see the abstract (if available). (For earlier talks in this seminar, click here. For related seminars, click here. For the department webpage for the algebraic geometry seminar, click here.) For more information, please contact Jun Li, Michael Kemeny, or Ravi Vakil. October […]

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(The seminar webpage is here.) Michael Kemeny (Stanford) October 7, 2016 Syzygies, scrolls and Hurwitz spaces A famous conjecture of Mark Green predicts a close relationship between the geometry of a curve and the algebraic properties of its coordinate ring. … Continue reading →