UC Berkeley

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Fall 2008	Tuesdays, 3:45-6:00 939 Evans Hall
Organized by David Eisenbud

PDF notes, where available, are provided courtesy of Bjorn Poonen, who in no way vouches for their accuracy or completeness

09/02 3:45PM	David Eisenbud	Assymptotic Regularity: Are we almost there (at infinity) yet?
5:00PM	Morgan Brown	Beauville, Complex Algebraic Surfaces, Ch I
09/09 3:45PM	Mauricio Velasco	The Cox rings of big anticanonical rational surfaces
09/16 5:00PM	Olga Holtz	Zonotopal Algebra, Analysis and Combinatorics
09/23 3:45PM	Bernd Sturmfels	Convex Algebraic Geometry
09/30 3:45PM	Frank-Olaf Schreyer	Exceptional Steward-Gough platforms of geometric genus 7
10/07 3:45PM	Persi Diaconis	Carries, Shuffling, and an amazing Matrix
10/14 3:45PM	Valery Alexeev	From stable curves to higher dimensions 740 Evans
5:00PM	Matt Baker	Linear series on curves and graphs 740 Evans
10/28 3:45PM	Robin Hartshorne	Smoothable and Nonsmoothable Singularities
11/04 3:45PM	Srikanth Iyengar	Cohomology over complete intersections via exterior algebras
11/18 3:45PM	Davesh Maulik	TBA
5:00PM	Alexander Varchenko	Reality of Schubert calculus and the Gaudin model
12/02 3:45PM	Ravi Vakil	The moduli space of n points on the projective line up to projective equivalence
12/09 3:45PM	Sam Payne	Tropicalization and nonarchimedean analytification