Warwick AG Learning Seminar

Format: Self-contained talks at a survey level, delivered by different speakers every week in a slot of one hour. The topics are in/around algebraic geometry, of broad interest to algebraic geometers, but not necessarily familiar to every algebraic geometer.

Organizers: Diane Maclagan, Rob Silversmith and Alejandro Vargas.

Place and time: room B3.02 at 13:00 on Tuesdays, (a different room is booked on the 06th of May and the 17th of June).

• Tuesday 06th of May (week 3 of term):
  Speaker: Rob Silversmith
  Different room than usual: MS.04
  Topic: Hyperplane arrangements

• Tuesday 13th of May (week 4 of term):
  Speaker: Alejandro Vargas
  Topic: 3 proofs that every degree-3 smooth surface in ℙ^3_ℂ has 27 lines

• Tuesday 20th of May (week 5 of term):
  Speaker: Diane Maclagan
  Topic: Toric vector bundles

• Tuesday 27th of May (week 6 of term):
  Speaker: Chunyi Li
  Topic: Property Np for Polarized Abelian Surfaces

• Tuesday 3rd of June (week 7 of term):
  Speaker: TBA
  Topic: TBA

• Tuesday 10th of June (week 8 of term):
  Speaker: Marc Truter
  Topic: Resolution of singularities

• Tuesday 17th of June (week 9 of term):
  Different room than usual: TBA
  Speaker: TBA
  Topic: TBA

• Tuesday 24th of June (week 10 of term):
  Speaker: TBA
  Topic: TBA