UC Berkeley

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Spring 2011

Tuesdays, 3:45-6:00
939 Evans Hall
Organized by David Eisenbud

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Previous Semesters:
Fall 2005
Spring 2006
Fall 2006
Spring 2007
Fall 2007
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
Fall 2009
Fall 2010
Spring 2010
Fall 2011
Spring 2011

01/25  3:45PM Daniel Erman Tensor complexes
           5:00PM Adam Boocher Maximal Minors and Leading Terms
02/01  3:45PM Robin Hartshorne Stable Ulrich Bundles
           5:00PM Cynthia Vinzant Matroids and the inverse of a linear space
02/15  3:30PM Harm Derksen Quotients of unipotent groups
           5:00PM Yuri Tschinkel Geometric Igusa integrals
02/22  3:45PM Max Nitsche Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of seminormal simplicial affine semigroup rings
           5:00PM Claudiu Raicu Secant varieties of toric varieties
03/15  3:45PM Melody Chan Linear Systems on Curves and Graphs
           5:00PM Mehrdad Shashahani On the geometrization of the absolute Galois group
04/19  3:45PM Charley Crissman Equivariant Chow Groups
           5:00PM Daniel Pomerleano Matrix factorizations in the non-affine case
04/26  3:45PM Persi Diaconis Hopf Algebras and Shuffling
           5:00PM David Eisenbud What is a Matrix Factorization of a Regular Sequence?