Reading Seminar in Algebraic Geometry

Meets Thursdays 2:30-3:30PM in LGRT 1681.

The seminar consists of introductory talks by faculty followed by talks by graduate students. We attempt to make the seminar accessible to everyone.

Past Talks

For a complete list of past talks, click here.

Spring 2024

Date	Speaker	Title
Tue. 2/13	Paul Hacking UMass	What is a K3 surface?
Fri. 2/16	Jenia Tevelev University of Massachusetts	Braid and Phantom - I
Fri. 2/23	Jenia Tevelev University of Massachusetts	Braid and Phantom - 2
Tue. 2/27	Wendelin Lutz UMass	The cone of curves of a K3 surface
Fri. 3/1	Jenia Tevelev UMass Amherst	Braid and Phantom - 3
Tue. 3/5	Ethan Zhou UMass	Triangle singularities
Fri. 3/8	Alexei Oblomkov UMass	Quantum connections
Tue. 3/12	Eyal Markman UMass	Real and complex multiplication for K3 surfaces
Fri. 3/15		No seminar - AGNES
Fri. 3/22		No seminar - spring break
Tue. 3/26	Anibal Aravena UMass	Moduli spaces of sheaves on K3 surfaces and stability
Fri. 3/29	Yuxuan Yang UMass	Derived equivalences of hyperkahler varieties of K3^[n] type - an introduction.
Tue. 4/2	Elias Sink UMass	Elliptic fibrations of K3 surfaces
Fri. 4/5	Eyal Markman UMass	Very modular vector bundles over compact hyperkahler manifolds
Fri. 4/12	Anibal Aravena UMass	Fixed loci of antisymplectic involutions
Tue. 4/16	Josiah Foster UMass	Moduli spaces of simple sheaves on K3 surfaces
Mon. 4/22	Alexei Oblomkov UMass	Quantum Connections - II
Tue. 4/23	Aditya Khurmi UMass	Tate–Šafarevič group
Fri. 4/26	Paul Hacking UMass	Mirror symmetry for Fano manifolds. Part I.
Fri. 4/26	Paul Hacking UMass	Mirror symmetry for Fano manifolds. Part II.
Tue. 4/30	Chunlin Shao UMass	Arnold's strange duality and K3 surfaces
Fri. 5/10	Elias Sink UMass	Noncommutative resolution of $SU_C(2)$

Fall 2023

Date	Speaker	Title
Tue. 9/19	Paul Hacking UMass	Singularities of complex algebraic varieties
Tue. 9/26	Elias Sink UMass Amherst	Line configurations and K3 surfaces
Tue. 10/3	Kristin DeVleming UMass	Different types of surface singularities
Tue. 10/17	Wendelin Lutz UMass	Du Val singularities
Tue. 10/31	Ethan Zhou UMass	Deformations of singularities
Tue. 11/7	Cristian Rodriguez UMass and Mt Holyoke College	Surface cyclic quotient singularities
Tue. 11/14	Yuxuan Yang UMass	Birational geometry of regular surfaces
Tue. 11/28	Aditya Khurmi UMass	Can quadrilaterals give non-polyhedral pseudoeffective cones?
Tue. 12/5	Paul Hacking UMass	Smoothings of singularities and Milnor fibers
Tue. 12/12	Takuto Sato UMass	Links of singularities of complex surfaces

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