UC Berkeley

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Spring 2010	Tuesdays, 3:45-6:00 939 Evans Hall
Organized by David Eisenbud

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01/19 3:45PM	Luke Oeding	On the set-theoretic versions of conjectures of Holtz-Sturmfels and Landsberg-Weyman
02/09 3:45PM	Bernd Sturmfels	Mustafin Varieties
5:00PM	Andrew Snowden	Finiteness conjectures about the projective coordinate rings of X^n/G as n varies
02/16 3:45PM	Alex Fink	An application of binomial primary decomposition in algebraic statistics
02/23 3:45PM	Yu-jong Tzeng	Universal Formulas for Counting Nodal Curves on Surfaces
5:00PM	Chris Manon	Gorenstein semigroup rings and moduli of points on the line.
03/09 3:45PM	Daniel Erman	Matrix Representations of 6-fold covers
5:00PM	David Berlekamp	Geometry of the Frobenius problem and continued fractions
03/16 3:45PM	Joe Harris	Pseudo-stable maps: variants of the Kontsevich space
5:00PM	Sam Payne (Stanford)	A tropical proof of the Brill-Noether Theorem
03/30 3:45PM	David Eisenbud	Asymptotic Regularity
5:00PM	Adam Boocher	Hyperplane Sections of Determinental Varieties
04/13 3:45PM	David Rydh	Push-outs in algebraic geometry
5:20PM	Thanh Vu	Linear spaces of multigraded Betti diagrams
08/31 3:45PM	David Eisenbud	Resolutions over Complete Intersections; can you generalize matrix factorizations?
5:00PM	Claudiu Raicu	3x3 Minors of Catalecticants