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# Workshop

Connections for Women: Algebraic Geometry and Related Fields January 22, 2009 - January 24, 2009
 Registration Deadline: January 22, 2009 over 7 years ago October 22, 2008 almost 8 years ago
Parent Program: Algebraic Geometry
Organizers 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.)
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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. Primary Mathematics Subject Classification No Primary AMS MSC Secondary Mathematics Subject Classification No Secondary AMS MSC Funding & Logistics ## Show Funding To apply for funding, you must register by the funding application deadline displayed above. Students, recent Ph.D.'s, women, and members of underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Funding awards are typically made 6 weeks before the workshop begins. Requests received after the funding deadline are considered only if additional funds become available. ## Show Lodging 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. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Durant. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-238-7268. When making reservations, guests must request the MSRI preferred rate. If you are making your reservations on line, please go to this link and enter the promo/corporate code MSRI123. Our preferred rate is$129 per night for a Deluxe Queen/King, based on availability.

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Schedule
Jan 22, 2009
Thursday
 09:15 AM - 10:15 AM From curves to abelian varieties:updating the classical Torelli theorem Lucia Caporaso (Università di Roma, II) 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Symplectic techniques in algebraic geometry Tara Holm
Jan 23, 2009
Friday
 09:15 AM - 10:15 AM An introduction to Affine Grassmannians Sara Billey 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Graver bases of varieties of minimal degree Sonja Petrovic 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Branch Curves of Singular Surfaces Rebecca Lehman 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Enumerative geometry, Gromov-Witten theory, and orbifolds. Linda Chen (Swarthmore College)
Jan 24, 2009
Saturday
 09:15 AM - 10:15 AM Boundary of the moduli space of curves and arithmetic applications Rachel Pries (Colorado State University) 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Convex Algebraic Geometry Rekha Thomas (University of Washington) 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM Weak Approximation for Degree 2 del Pezzo Surfaces Amanda Knecht 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Indecomposable classes in the Brauer group of Q_p(t) Kelly McKinnie
Aug 24, 2009
Monday
 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Basic tropical notions: varieties and maps Grigory Mikhalkin (Université de Genève)