Conference on Algebraic Geometry

Curves, abelian varieties and their interactions
on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Roy Smith

March 30 - April 2, 2007

The aim of the conference is to review recent developments on curves, abelian varieties and their interactions, and to encourage new ones.

Speakers

Arnaud Beauville	Nice, France	Algebraic cycles on Jacobian varieties
Michel Brion	Grenoble, France	Actions of non-affine algebraic groups
Lucia Caporaso	University of Rome-3, Italy	Abel maps and theta divisors for stable curves
Sebastian Casalaina-Martin	Harvard University	Prym varieties and the Schottky problem for cubic threefolds
Herb Clemens	Ohio State	Making the Hodge problem "more geometric"
Phillip A. Griffiths	Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton	Degeneration of Abel Jacobi mappings and Neron models for intermediate jacobians
Samuel Grushevsky	Princeton University	Intersection numbers of divisors on the moduli space of abelian varieties
Matt Kerr	University of Chicago	Algebraic K-theory of toric hypersurfaces
Igor Krichever	Columbia University	Integrable linear equations of the soliton theory and Riemann-Schottky type problems
Herbert Lange	Erlangen, Germany	Polarizations of Prym varieties via abelianization
David Lehavi	University of Michigan	There are no projective surfaces in M₄
Alina Marian	Yale University	The level-rank duality for nonabelian theta functions
Martin Olsson	University of California, Berkeley	A higher dimensional version of generalized elliptic curves
Giuseppe Pareschi	University of Rome-2, Italy	Generic vanishing and Fourier-Mukai transforms
Gregory Pearlstein	Michigan State University	On the zero locus of a normal function
Ravi Vakil	Stanford University	Murphy's Law in algebraic geometry: Badly-behaved moduli spaces
Alessandro Verra	University of Rome-3, Italy	On the Prym moduli spaces of curves in low genus
Ilia Zharkov	Harvard University	Tropical curves and their Jacobians

Schedule

The talks will begin in the morning on Friday, March 30, and end on Monday, April 2. The suggested arrival day is Thursday, March 29, and departure Tuesday, April 3.

All talks will take place in the Boyd Graduate Building (the same building as Science Library), in room 328.

Friday 3/30 Saturday 3/31 Sunday 4/1 Monday 4/2

9:00-10:00 Krichever Griffiths Beauville Lehavi

10:00-10:30 Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break

10:30-11:30 Pareschi Caporaso Casalaina-Martin Marian

11:40-12:40 Olsson Zharkov Verra Clemens

12:40-2:30 Lunch break Lunch break Lunch break Hike in
Tallulah
Gorge

2:30-3:30 Kerr Brion Lange

3:30-4:00 Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break

4:00-5:00 Grushevsky Vakil Pearlstein

5:30 Reception at
GA Museum of Art Conference dinner
at Five & Ten

Practical Information

Click here for the information about travel, hotel and the city of Athens.

Support for graduate students and postdocs

Support was available for graduate students and recent PhDs; the deadline for application has now passed.

For any questions, please contact the organizers, Valery Alexeev and Elham Izadi, by emailing us at