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Seminar Schedule
August 16 - 18, 2006
All Seminars are held in Boyd Graduate Studies Bldg. unless otherwise noted.
WEDNESDAY, August 16, 2006
Algebraic Geometry
2:30pm, Room 304
Speaker: Valery Alexeev, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Higher-dimensional analogues of stable curves
Abstract: The Minimal Model Program offers natural higher-dimensional
analogues of stable n-pointed curves and maps: stable pairs consisting of a
projective variety X of dimension >1 and a divisor B, that should satisfy
a few simple conditions, and stable maps f:(X,B)->Y. Although MMP remains
conjectural in higher dimensions, in several important situations the moduli
spaces of stable pairs, generalizing those of Deligne-Mumford, Knudsen and Kontsevich,
can be constructed more directly, and in considerable generality. We review
these constructions, with particular attention paid to varieties with group
action, and list some open problems. (This is will be a practice ICM talk.)
Faculty and Graduate Student Social
3:00pm, Room 409
Coffee, Cookies, Tea
VIGRE Algebra
3:30pm, Room 303
Speaker: Daniel Nakano, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Organizational meeting, and review of Lie
algebra cohomology.
Arithmetic Geometry/Number Theory
3:30pm, Room 304
No meeting this week
THURSDAY, August 17, 2006
VIGRE
Graduate Student Seminar
There will be 2 30-min. talks, introducing the VIGRE groups.
2:00pm, Room 302
Speaker: Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Computational Geometry
2:30pm, Room 302
Speaker: Cal Burgoyne, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Quantum Mechanics