Mathematical Sciences Research Institute - Connections for Women: Algebraic Geometry and Related Fields

Organized By: Angela Gibney (U. Pennsylvania), Brendan Hassett (Rice U.), Sándor Kovács (U. Washington), Diane Maclagan (Warwick U.) Jessica Sidman (Mt. Holyoke), and Ravi Vakil (Stanford U.)

Parent Programs:

Algebraic Geometry

Participant List:

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Twenty-first century algebraic geometry is a broad subject, with mathematicians on different frontiers sharing little background.
This workshop will consist of colloquium-style talks introducing some of its subfields to people, particularly postdocs, working in other areas.

The workshop is part of the semester program on Algebraic Geometry, and some additional funding will be available for participants to attend the associated workshop "Introductory workshop: Classical algebraic geometry" January 26-30, 2009.

There will be a poster session on Friday afternoon to highlight the work of recent PhD recipients and advanced graduate students working in areas connected to algebraic geometry. Participants interested in presenting a poster should email a title and abstract to connections@msri2009.org.

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Accomodations:

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Rose Garden Inn. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-992-9005 OR directly on their website. Click on Corporate at the bottom of the screen and when prompted enter code MATH (this code is not case sensitive). By using this code a new calendar will appear and will show MSRI rate on all room types available.
The cut-off date for reservations is January 2, 2009.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Durant. Please mention the workshop name and reference the following code when making reservations via phone, fax or e-mail: LI0000. The cut-off date for reservations is December 22, 2008. Room Rate $159/ night.

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Schedule
Thursday January 22, 2009
09:00AM - 09:15AM	Opening Remarks
09:15AM - 10:15AM	Lucia Caporaso	From curves to abelian varieties:updating the classical Torelli theorem
10:15AM - 11:00AM	Coffee, Tea in the atrium
11:00AM - 12:00PM	Panel Discussion
12:00PM - 02:00PM	Lunch
02:00PM - 03:00PM	Tara Holm	Symplectic techniques in algebraic geometry
03:00PM - 04:00PM	Coffee, tea in the atrium
04:00PM - 05:00PM	Smith (UC Berkeley Colloquium)
Friday January 23, 2009
09:15AM - 10:15AM	Sara Billey	An introduction to Affine Grassmannians
10:00AM - 10:30AM	Coffe, tea in the atrium
10:30AM - 11:00AM	Sonja Petrovic	Graver bases of varieties of minimal degree
11:00AM - 11:30AM	Break
11:30AM - 12:00PM	Rebecca Lehman	Branch Curves of Singular Surfaces
12:00PM - 02:00PM	Lunch
02:00PM - 03:00PM	Linda Chen	Enumerative geometry, Gromov-Witten theory, and orbifolds.
03:00PM - 05:00PM	Poster Session
03:00PM - 03:30PM	Coffee Tea in the atrium
06:00PM - 08:00PM	Group Dinner
Saturday January 24, 2009
09:15AM - 10:15AM	Rachel Pries	Boundary of the moduli space of curves and arithmetic applications
10:15AM - 11:00AM	Coffee, tea in the atrium
11:00AM - 12:00PM	Rekha Thomas	Convex Algebraic Geometry
12:00PM - 02:00PM	Lunch
02:00PM - 02:30PM	Amanda Knecht	Weak Approximation for Degree 2 del Pezzo Surfaces
02:30PM - 03:00PM	Break
03:00PM - 03:30PM	Kelly McKinnie	Indecomposable classes in the Brauer group of Q_p(t)
03:30PM - 04:00PM	Coffe, tea in the atrium
04:00PM - 05:00PM	Panel/Group discussion

Currently Available Videos

Lucia Caporaso , From curves to abelian varieties:updating the classical Torelli theorem January 22,2009, 09:15 AM to 10:15 AM
Tara Holm , Symplectic techniques in algebraic geometry January 22,2009, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
Sara Billey , An introduction to Affine Grassmannians January 23,2009, 09:15 AM to 10:15 AM
Sonja Petrovic , Graver bases of varieties of minimal degree January 23,2009, 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Rebecca Lehman , Branch Curves of Singular Surfaces January 23,2009, 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Linda Chen , Enumerative geometry, Gromov-Witten theory, and orbifolds. January 23,2009, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
Rachel Pries , Boundary of the moduli space of curves and arithmetic applications January 24,2009, 09:15 AM to 10:15 AM
Rekha Thomas , Convex Algebraic Geometry January 24,2009, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Amanda Knecht , Weak Approximation for Degree 2 del Pezzo Surfaces January 24,2009, 02:00 PM to 02:30 PM
Kelly McKinnie , Indecomposable classes in the Brauer group of Q_p(t) January 24,2009, 03:00 PM to 03:30 PM

You can find videos of other workshops and events on our VMath - Streaming Video page.

For more information:
Questions about this workshop should be sent either by email to

471@msri.org

or by regular mail to:

Connections for Women: Algebraic Geometry and Related Fields Mathematical Sciences Research Institute 17 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720-5070. USA

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Connections for Women: Algebraic Geometry and Related Fields

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Schedule

Thursday January 22, 2009

Friday January 23, 2009

Saturday January 24, 2009

Currently Available Videos