Seminar: Algebraic and Tropical Geometry

The Yale Algebraic and Tropical Geometry seminar meets weekly on Thursdays from 4:30 to 5:30 in 431 DL. Afterwards, we usually go to dinner with the speaker at a local restaurant. For more information, contact Dustin Cartwright, Asher Auel, or Dave Jensen.

Also consider attending AGNES at Stony Brook on the weekend of April 25-27.

DateSpeakerTitle
Jan. 9Mandy CheungThe tropical vertex group, scattering diagrams and quivers
Jan. 23José GonzálezTopics on algebraic cobordism
Jan. 30Jenia TevelevMori nightmare spaces
Feb. 6François CharlesFrobenius distribution for pairs of elliptic curves
Feb. 13 Louis RowenTropical algebra
Feb. 20 Mike RothRoth's theorem for arbitrary varieties
Feb. 26Kristin ShawTropical surfaces
Special time: 1:15-2:15 pm
Mar. 6Brendan HassettArithmetic of K3 surfaces and derived equivalence
Mar. 13No seminar: spring break
Mar. 20No seminar: spring break
Mar. 27Dusty RossWall-crossing in genus zero Landau-Ginzburg theory
Apr. 3No seminar
Apr. 10No seminar: Whittemore Lecture by David Eisenbud
Apr. 17Tommaso de FernexThe Nash problem on families of arcs
Apr. 24Brian ConradCompactification of algebraic groups

This seminar has previously been run in the fall of 2012, spring of 2013, and fall of 2013.