Yale Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Spring 2015

The Yale Algebraic Geometry seminar meets weekly on Thursdays 4:30 - 5:30 in DL 431. Afterward, we usually go to dinner with the speaker at a local restaurant.

Organizers: Asher Auel, José González, Nathan Kaplan, and Sam Payne,

Consider attending AGNES at Boston College in Spring 2015.

http://calendar.math.yale.edu/public_html/calendar/www/event.php?ID=1914&Date=2015-04-16

Date	Speaker	Title
Jan 22 4:00-5:00 DL 431	Brian Lehmann	Positivity of cycles and asymptotic invariants We are starting 30 minutes early!
Jan 22 5:30-6:30 YUAG	David Mumford	Special event! The Art of the Equation Exhibition of prints at the Yale University Art Gallery
Jan 29	Dawei Chen	Effective divisors on moduli spaces of curves
Feb 5	José González	The moduli space of stable n-pointed genus 0 curves is not a Mori Dream Space when n is at least 13
Feb 12	Qile Chen	The decomposition formula for log Gromov-Witten invariants
Feb 19	No seminar: Christopher Hacon speaking in New York
Feb 26	Ronen Mukamel	TBA Joint with Geometry and Topology Seminar
Mar 4 2:30-3:30 LOM 215	Christian Schnell	Generic vanishing and compact Kähler manifolds Non-standard meeting time!
Mar 5	Radu Laza	Moduli of degree 4 K3 surfaces revisited Talk canceled due to snow storm!
Mar 12	No seminar: Spring break
Mar 19	No seminar: Spring break
Apr 2	Andrew Obus	Minimizing wild ramification slopes on Berkovich disks
Apr 9	Christian Böhning	Dynamical degrees of birational self-maps of cubic fourfolds
Apr 16 4:00-5:00 5:30-6:30 DL 431	Ivan Loseu Tif Shen	Classification of Procesi bundles Tropical abelian varieties and Lefschetz hyperplane theorem
Apr 23	Paul Hacking	Theta functions for K3 surfaces
Apr 30	What is BATMOBYLE?

This seminar has previously run in Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, and Fall 2014.