RTG Reading Seminar

Spring 2016

Important Examples in Algebraic Geometry

Time and Location: Wednesday from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. in SEO 427

January 20, 2016

 

January 27, 2016

 

February 3, 2016

 

February 10, 2016

 

February 17, 2016

 

February 24, 2016

 

March 2, 2016

 

March 9, 2016

 

March 30, 2016

 

April 6, 2016

 

April 13, 2016

 

April 20, 2016

 

April 27, 2016

Eric Riedl

 

Xudong Zheng

 

John Lesieutre

 

Alex  Stathis

 

Seckin Adali

 

Shuhang Yang

 

Jay Kopper

 

Janet Page

 

Janis Lazovskis

 

Sam Shideler

 

Joel Stapleton

 

Tabes Bridges

 

Tim Ryan

Non-finite generation of Chow groups

 

Unirational K3 surfaces in positive characteristic

 

A non-closed effective cone and pathologies in base loci

 

Unirational varieties that are not rational / stably rational

 

Using the Lefschetz hyperplane theorem

 

Examples of small resolutions

 

Weighted projective spaces

 

Varieties of minimal degree

 

Computing the Hodge diamond of hypersurfaces in projective space

 

Failure of vanishing theorems in positive characteristic

 

Computing the genus of curves

 

Examples of Flips and Flops I

 

Examples of Flips and Flops II