Seminars and Colloquia by Series

Compactifying parameter spaces

Series
Intersection Theory Seminar
Time
Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 15:18 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Tianyi Zhang – Georgia Tech
We continue the discussion of Chapter 8 in 3264 and All That. We will discuss complete quadrics, Hilbert schemes and Kontsevich spaces.

Singular Elements of Linear Series part II

Series
Intersection Theory Seminar
Time
Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 13:30 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Daniel Minahan – Georgia Tech
We will finish chapter 7 of Eisenbud and Harris, 3264 and All That.Topics: Inflection points of curves in P^r, nets of plane curves, the topological Hurwitz formula.

Singular Elements of Linear Series

Series
Intersection Theory Seminar
Time
Thursday, January 24, 2019 - 13:30 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Stephen McKean – Georgia Tech
We will cover the first half of chapter 7 of Eisenbud and Harris, 3264 and All That.Topics: singular hypersurfaces and the universal singularity, bundles of principal parts, singular elements of a pencil, singular elements of linear series in general.