UGA Algebraic Geometry Seminar:: Fall 2008

Standard time: Wednesdays, 2:30-3:30, in Boyd 410

Date	Speaker	Title
Thu Aug 28	Andrei Zelevinsky (Northeastern University)	Quiver Grassmannians and cluster algebras
Wed Sep 3	Tyler Kelly (UGA)	Mirror quintics and Shioda maps
Wed Sep 10	Dave Swinarski (UGA)	GIT and moduli spaces of curves
Wed Sep 17	Radu Laza (University of Michigan)	Triangulations of the sphere and degenerations of K3 surfaces
Wed Sep 24	Dave Swinarski (UGA)	GIT constructions of moduli spaces of curves and maps, 2.
Wed Oct 1	Valery Alexeev (UGA)	GIT and singularities
Wed Oct 8	Daniel Krashen (UGA)	Stable pointed trees of projective spaces
Wed Oct 22	Angela Gibney (UGA)	Bounds on nef cones
Wed Oct 29	Ana-Maria Castravet (University of Arizona)	Hypergraphs and moduli of curves
Wed Nov 5	Angela Gibney (UGA)	Bounds on nef cones, part 2
Mon Nov 10 (Non-std day)	Diane Maclagan (University of Warwick) (joint with Algebra seminar)	Smooth irreducible multigraded Hilbert schemes
Wed Nov 12	Leonardo Mihalcea (Duke University)	Quantum K-theory of the Grassmannian
Wed Nov 19	Maxim Arap (UGA)	Rational curves on hypersurfaces of low degree
Wed Nov 26	Thanksgiving break
Wed Dec 3	Mark Blunk (UCLA)	Del Pezzo surfaces of degree 6 over an arbitrary field