UC Berkeley

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Spring 2010

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

Previous Semesters:
Fall 2005
Spring 2006
Fall 2006
Spring 2007
Fall 2007
Spring 2008
Fall 2008
Fall 2009

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