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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Graduate Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
4:00 pm   in 143 Altgeld Hall,  Wednesday, September 3, 2008
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Artan Sheshmani   [email] (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
(Topic changed!): Stable ADHM sheaves and their moduli spaces
Abstract: I will talk about ADHM sheaves ,stable ADHM sheaves and their moduli spaces, If I have time I will also talk about relation between ADHM sheaves and relative Beilinson spectral sequence, This talk may be technical to some extent, familiarity with Grothendieck's hyper-cohomology and Basic moduli theory would be very helpful.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Mathematics Colloquium
4:00 pm   in 245 Altgeld Hall,  Thursday, September 4, 2008
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Gregory G. Smith (Queen's University)
Smooth and irreducible multigraded Hilbert schemes
Abstract: Hilbert schemes, in their various forms, are the fundamental parameter spaces in algebraic geometry. Multigraded Hilbert schemes, introduced by Haiman and Sturmfels, consolidate many types of Hilbert schemes including Hilbert schemes of points in affine space, toric Hilbert schemes and the classical Grothendieck Hilbert schemes. In this talk, we'll survey the geometry of multigraded Hilbert schemes and discuss a new class of smooth and irreducible ones.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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David Smyth (Harvard)
Compact moduli of singular curves: A case study in genus one
Abstract: We define an infinite sequence of isolated curve singularities, the elliptic $m$-fold points, and an associated sequence of stability conditions for $n$-pointed curves of genus one, which generalizes the usual notion of Deligne-Mumford stability. The maps between the corresponding moduli spaces can be interpreted as divisorial contractions and flips (in the sense of Mori theory). We will explain how this phenomena gives insight into the general problem (initiated by B. Hassett) of understanding the canonical model of moduli space of stable curves of genus g for g>>0.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Graduate Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
4:00 pm   in 143 Altgeld Hall,  Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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Dusty Grundmeier (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
CR Mappings and Segre Varieties
Abstract: In this talk I will introduce the notion of a Segre variety and how one can associate a Segre variety to a proper holomorphic map. We will prove Forstneric's result that a sufficiently smooth proper holomorphic map between balls must be rational.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Graduate Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
4:00 pm   in 143 Altgeld Hall,  Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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Jinwon Choi   [email] (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
Equivariant cohomology and the localization theorem
Abstract: I will define the equivariant cohomology for a topological space with a group action and discuss the localization theorem of Atiyah and Bott. We will see examples as applications of this theorem.

Friday, September 19, 2008

Seminar on Sheaves of Dimension 1
4:00 pm   in 241 Altgeld Hall,  Friday, September 19, 2008
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Sheldon Katz (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
Physics-inspired enumerative theories in dimension 3: an overview
Abstract: In this impromptu talk for algebraic geometry graduate students, I will start from classical enumerative geometry and give a brief overview of the powerful physics-inspired modern enumerative invariants: Gromov-Witten, Donaldson-Thomas, Pandharipande-Thomas, and the still-mysterious Gopakumar-Vafa invariants. The talks to follow in this seminar will be presented by graduate students.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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Izzet Coskun (UIC)
The geometry of orthogonal Grassmannians and flag varieties
Abstract: In this talk, I will give a geometric approach for studying the cohomology of orthogonal Grassmannians and flag varieties. I will give a geometric presentation for the cohomology ring of orthogonal flag varieties. I will also discuss analogues of Pieri, Giambelli and Littlewood-Richardson rules for computing products in the cohomology of orthogonal Grassmannians and flag varieties.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Graduate Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
4:00 pm   in 143 Altgeld Hall,  Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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Nathaniel Stapleton (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
The Derived Functors of Modular Forms and the Homotopy of TMF
Abstract: Let (A,\Gamma) be the Hopf algebroid of generalized Weierstrass curves. The cohomology groups of this algebroid are the derived functors of the integral modular forms. I will describe how one goes about computing these groups. Also I will explain the topological impetus for doing so and some of the calculations involved.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, September 30, 2008
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Elizabeth Csima (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
Newton-Hodge filtration for self-dual F-crystals
Abstract: We describe F-crystals with self-dual structure over base schemes of characteristic p. We will present a version of Katz's Newton-Hodge Filtration Theorem for self-dual F-crystals. This result can be thought of as a group theoretical generalization of the original Newton-Hodge Filtration Theorem for orthogonal and symplectic groups.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Math 499: Introduction to Graduate Mathematics
4:00 pm   in 245 Altgeld Hall,  Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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Iwan Duursma (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
Using algebraic geometry to share a secret

Graduate Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
4:00 pm   in Altgeld Hall,  Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, October 7, 2008
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Li Li (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
Hilbert scheme of points on a smooth stack
Abstract: Hilbert schemes of points on a smooth surface have many desirable properties, and have been intensively studied for a long time. In this talk, we first review some of these properties, then study the Hilbert schemes of points on a smooth stack of dimension 2, in particular the quotient of affine plane by a finite cyclic group. The betti number, and hence the cellular decomposition, is given in terms of combinatorical data.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Graduate Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
4:00 pm   in 143 Altgeld Hall,  Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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Thomas Nevins   [email] (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
Fourier-Mukai transforms
Abstract: Fourier-Mukai transforms originated as a tool for studying the geometry of abelian varieties. They have since become central players in a broad range of contemporary directions in algebraic geometry. I'll give an introduction to Fourier-Mukai transforms "from scratch." I'll also explain their usefulness in some concrete problems and describe why they have become so important in recent years.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Mathematical Physics
12:00 pm   in 464 Loomis,  Thursday, October 9, 2008
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Robert Karp (Virginia Tech Physics)
Numerical aspects of string theory and algebraic geometry
Abstract: For nearly 25 years Calabi-Yau spaces have played a central role in string theory, yet no explicit metric was known. I will outline ideas pioneered by Donaldson and Yau that lead to such metrics numerically; then extend this approach to solving the hermitian Yang-Mills equation, and also obtain metrics on moduli spaces. Knowledge of these quantities is unavoidable for physical predictions.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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Zach Teitler (Texas A & M)
Bounding Hilbert functions of fat point schemes
Abstract: Let A be a fat point scheme in the plane. Typically one knows a set of curves that pass through some of the points of support of A. For example, one might know which sets of points in the support of A are collinear. I will demonstrate how to use this information to give upper and lower bounds for the Hilbert function of A. This leads to surprisingly good bounds and even a simple criterion for when the bounds coincide, so in many cases we get an exact computation of the Hilbert function of A. The technical idea is an inductive reduction: We reduce A along one of the lines passing through points of A, and relate the Hilbert function of A with the Hilbert function of the reduced scheme. In low degrees, this inductive step is simply Bezout’s theorem. The extension to arbitrary degrees is still elementary, and well-illustrated by examples. (This is joint work with Susan Cooper and Brian Harbourne.)

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Graduate Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
4:00 pm   in Altgeld Hall,  Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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(Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
No seminar this week.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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Prakash Belkale (University of North Carolina)
The monodromy of the Hitchin/WZW connection, and applications to strange dualities
Abstract: Non abelian theta functions, which generalise the classical theta functions on the Jacobian of a curve X, are associated to a group G, an algebraic curve X and a level k. As the curve X moves in its moduli space, the spaces of non abelian theta functions carry a connection. It is an open problem to determine the monodromy of this projective connection and to prove the physics expectation that it is unitary. I will review some of these questions. If G->H is a map of groups, H-theta functions map to G-theta functions. I will discuss the problem of determining when these maps are flat, with applications to ``strange dualities''.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Graduate Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
4:00 pm   in 143 Altgeld Hall,  Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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Radoslav Kirov (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
Algebraic Geometry for Error-Correction
Abstract: In this talk I will give an introduction to error correcting codes constructed from algebraic curves (known as geometric Goppa codes). I will show how are those codes constructed, what are the interesting parameters for error-correction, and how the Riemann-Roch theorem gives upper bounds on the parameters.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, October 28, 2008
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Karl Schwede (University of Michigan)
F-singularities and relations with the singularities of birational geometry
Abstract: For the past 30 years, people have studied relations between singularities defined by the action of Frobenius in positive characteristic and singularities defined by a resolution in characteristic zero. I will sketch how some of these relations work, and describe recent work of mine on a positive characteristic p analogue of log canonical-centers (which it turns out have themselves been studied before). I will explain the very natural way in which Q-divisors \Delta such that K_X + \Delta is Q-Cartier appear in the positive characteristic setting. Finally, I will also explain recent work on local versions of F-(inversion of) (sub)adjunction on F-purity in positive characteristic.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Graduate Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
4:00 pm   in 143 Altgeld Hall,  Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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Alexandra Seceleanu (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
Green's Canonical Syzygy Conjecture
Abstract: I shall give an overview of a conjecture in algebraic geometry that relates the Clifford index of a curve to the length of the quadratic strand in its minimal resolution.

Math 499: Introduction to Graduate Mathematics
4:00 pm   in 245 Altgeld Hall,  Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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Alex Yong (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
Algebraic Combinatorics
Abstract: Algebraic combinatorics is concerned with interactions between combinatorics and other areas of mathematics, such as:
  • algebraic geometry
  • representation theory
  • commutative algebra
  • algebraic topology
One central theme in the subject is to give proofs of the non-negativity of integers, by obtaining combinatorial rules for them.

I'll give two core examples. The first is about the "Littlewood-Richardson numbers", which arise, e.g., in the intersection theory of Grassmannians, the representation theory of GL_n, and in eigenvalue problems about Hermitian matrices. The second discusses "totally positive matrices" (square matrices whose sub-determinants are all positive), a topic connected to: oscillations in mechanical systems, stochastic processes and approximation theory, and planar resistor networks.


Thursday, October 30, 2008

Differential Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 347 Altgeld Hall,  Thursday, October 30, 2008
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Graeme Wilkin (Johns Hopkins)
Moment map flows and algebraic geometry.
Abstract: A common theme in symplectic geometry is an expected relationship between a symplectic quotient and a geometric invariant theory quotient. This is known as the "Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence", and has been proven for many cases of interest using geometric flow techniques, for example the Donaldson-Uhlenbeck-Yau theorem for holomorphic bundles over compact Kahler manifolds. Work of Daskalopoulos and Wentworth for the Yang-Mills flow over Kahler surfaces describes the limit of the flow in terms of an algebraic object: the Harder-Narasimhan-Seshadri filtration of a holomorphic bundle. This can be viewed as an "unstable Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence". In this talk I will describe how this theorem can be extended to moment map flows on the space of Higgs bundles over a compact Riemann surface, and also on the space of representations of a quiver. The work on representations of a quiver is joint with Megumi Harada of McMaster University.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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Hal Schenck (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
Geometry and syzygies of rational surfaces associated to line configurations in P^2

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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Radu Laza (University of Michigan)
Triangulations of the sphere and degenerations of K3 surfaces
Abstract: A result of W. Thurston says that the triangulations of S^2 are parameterized by elements of positive norm in a certain lattice over Eisenstein integers. I will discuss this result from the perspective of degenerations of K3 surfaces.

Graph Theory and Combinatorics
3:00 pm   in 241 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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Alexander Yong (UIUC Math)
Positivity in Algebraic Combinatorics
Abstract: Algebraic combinatorics is concerned with interactions between combinatorics and other areas of mathematics, such as:
* algebraic geometry
* representation theory
* commutative algebra
* algebraic topology
One central theme in the subject is to give proofs of the non-negativity of integers by obtaining combinatorial rules for them. I'll give two core examples. The first is about the "Littlewood-Richardson numbers", which arise, e.g., in the intersection theory of Grassmannians, the representation theory of GLn, and in eigenvalue problems about Hermitian matrices. The second discusses "totally positive matrices" (square matrices whose sub-determinants are all positive), a topic connected to oscillations in mechanical systems, stochastic processes and approximation theory, and planar resistor networks.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Graduate Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
4:00 pm   in 143 Altgeld Hall,  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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Li Li   [email] (UIUC Math)
Decomposition Theorem and Algebraic geometry
Abstract: These talks give an introduction to the intersection cohomology, perverse sheaf and the Decomposition Theorem of Beilinson, Bernstein, Deligne and Gabber. I will first focus on two concrete examples: the resolution of surface singularities and the map from a surface to a curve. Then we will talk on perverse sheaves and the general form of the Decomposition Theorem. Finally we talk about some applications of the Decomposition Theorem, one of which is to compute the Poincare polynomials of Hilbert schemes.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, November 18, 2008
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Mircea Mustata (University of Michigan)
Sequences of log canonical thresholds
Abstract: The log canonical threshold of a function is an invariant that measures which powers of the function are locally integrable. This is an invariant that appears in many contexts, and that found many applications in birational geometry. I will discuss results and conjectures dealing with limit points of log canonical thresholds. This is joint work with Tommaso de Fernex.

Friday, December 5, 2008

Graduate Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
4:00 pm   in 145 Altgeld Hall,  Friday, December 5, 2008
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Jinhyung To (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
Vector bundles over a curve of genus one
Abstract: We will classify indecomposable vector bundles over a nonsingular curve of genus one. In fact, indecomposable bundles are semistable and it is stable if and only if rank and degree are coprime.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, December 9, 2008
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Bill Haboush (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
A Comparison Theorem for Lattice Varieties

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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Arthur B. Coble (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
Organizational meeting
Abstract: We'll meet to discuss speakers for this semester's seminar. We will also discuss a proposal to have a working seminar this semester (on a topic to be decided).

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Seminar
1:00 pm   in 147 Altgeld Hall,  Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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Nat Stapleton (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
HKR and Algebraic Geometry
Abstract: We will explore the Hopkins-Kuhn-Ravenel generalized character isomorphism for Morava E-theory in the language of finite flat group schemes and p-divisible groups. If there is enough time we will discuss generalizations.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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William Haboush (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois)
The Fundamental Lemma, Part I

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Mathematics Colloquium
4:00 pm   in 245 Altgeld Hall,  Thursday, February 19, 2009
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Allen Knutson (Cornell University)
Why do matrices commute? Algebraic geometry meets statistical mechanics
Abstract: The matrix equations M^2 = 0 are quadratic, so to derive the linear equation Trace(M)=0 from them requires nonalgebraic operations. Are there corresponding "surprising" equations implied by the matrix equation XY=YX? This question was posed in the '60s, and still nobody knows. Even the (normalized) volume of this space &ob;(X,Y) : XY=YX&cb; is very difficult to compute for large matrices, and until recently was only known to start 1,3,31,1145.

I'll talk about a bunch of related spaces of matrices, some of which are provably harder and some easier to understand than the commuting scheme &ob;(X,Y) : XY=YX&cb;, and the volumes of these spaces. Then I'll explain how physicists came up with the same set of numbers from a statistical mechanical model (making them much easier to compute), and why they are indeed the same.

Some of this work is joint with Paul Zinn-Justin.


Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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Bill Haboush (UIUC Math)
The Fundamental Lemma, II
Abstract: This will be the second lecture introducing the Fundamental Lemma (following T. Hales's article).

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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Bill Haboush (University of Illinois)
Statement of the Fundamental Lemma, III
Abstract: This is the third in a series of talks leading up to a precise statement of the Fundamental Lemma (recently proven by Ngo). It is based on the paper of T. Hales, "A statement of the fundamental lemma."

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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Susan Sierra (University of Washington)
Transversality and noncommutative geometry
Abstract: Let Z and Y be closed subvarieties of a variety X. We say that Z and Y are _homologically_transverse_ if the higher Tor's of their structure sheaves all vanish. Now let G be an algebraic group acting on X. We give conditions on Z that ensure that for any Y, the general translate of Z under the action of G is homologically transverse to Y. This result generalizes a recent result of Miller and Speyer for transitive group actions and ultimately goes back to the classical Kleiman-Bertini theorem. We give applications to noncommutative algebraic geometry, including the classification of noncommutative surfaces.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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Donghoon Hyeon (Marshall University)
A new look at the moduli space of hyperelliptic curves
Abstract: There are two natural ways to compactify the moduli space of smooth hyperelliptic curves of genus g: one is to take the closure in the moduli space of stable curves of genus g, and the other is to construct the GIT quotient of semistable binary forms of degree 2g + 2. Avritzer and Lange showed that there is a projective birational morphism f from the former to the latter extending the natural isomorphism between the loci of smooth curves. By carrying out a log minimal model program, we prove that f decomposes into a series of divisorial contractions collapsing the boundary divisors in natural order. We also obtain a conjectural formula for critical values in the log MMP for the moduli of stable hyperelliptic curves which are also expected to be critical values for the log MMP for the moduli of stable curves. They are then identified with the values from a formula obtained by considering the GIT stability of curves. This suggests that log canonical models can be constructed as GIT quotients of Hilbert scheme of curves that are 'rationally' semistable.

Graph Theory and Combinatorics
3:00 pm   in 241 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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Hal Schenck (UIUC Math)
Graphs, hyperplane arrangements, and algebra
Abstract: Associated to a simple graph G with vertex set V is a hyperplane arrangement A, which is a finite set of hyperplanes in the vector space K|V| (typically K is the complex or real numbers). Each edge (i,j) of G gives rise to a hyperplane, defined by the vanishing of the linear form xi-xj. I'll spend the first half of the talk describing examples and the basic translation between graph-theoretic concepts and the analogous concepts in algebraic geometry. In the second part I'll describe two basic algebraic objects associated to arrangements, as well as several open conjectures about these objects.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Special Algebraic Geometry Seminar
1:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Thursday, March 19, 2009
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Bill Haboush (UIUC Math)
The statement of the fundamental lemma
Abstract: This continues our series on the statement of the Fundamental Lemma, recently proven by Ngo.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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Davesh Maulik (MIT)
Gromov-Witten Theory of K3 Surfaces

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00 pm   in 243 Altgeld Hall,  Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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Elizabeth Csima (UIUC)
The reduction of the fundamental lemma to the Lie algebra case

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Seminar
1:00 pm   in Altgeld Hall 147,  Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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Pat Szuta (UIUC Math)
Hochschild, Negative, Cyclic, and Periodic Homologies of Exact Categories
Abstract: K-theory is a powerful tool with applications in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and number theory, with two main flavors, Algebraic and Topological. Analogous to how homology groups can be used to approximate homotopy groups, we use topological Hochschild Homology (and related equivariant constructions) to approximate Algebraic K-theory. In this talk, we'll discuss Hochschild, Negative, Cyclic, and Periodic homologies of exact categories (categories with exact sequences). Our primary focus will be on the relationship between these theories as invariants of rings.