Junior Algebraic geometry Warwick Seminar (JAWS)
Welcome to JAWS, the new "nerve-frying" junior algebraic geometry seminar at Warwick!
Want to be part of this bunch of ravenous algebro-geometric jaws? This seminar is what you are looking for!
You'll find a vibrant group of PhD students and young researchers in Algebraic Geometry and related fields welcoming the special guest: the speaker of the week!
Whether you wish to show a piece of your progress, a new topic that fascinated you, or you simply need new appetising nourishments for your greedy minds, this is the right place.
"Come to the dark side, we have cakes!" ... and refreshments in the common room afterwards!
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Monday 10th June 2019, 4-5pm B3.03 Fabio Tanania (University of Nottingham) Subtle characteristic classes for Spin-torsorsIn this talk I will discuss the computation of the motivic cohomology ring of the Nisnevich classifying space of the spin group associated to the standard split quadratic form in bidegrees (q)[p] satisfying the condition p≤2q+1. As in topology, where the complete description has been obtained by Quillen, this happens to be not polynomial in the subtle Stiefel-Whitney classes introduced by Smirnov and Vishik, since new relations appear, coming from the action of the motivic Steenrod algebra on the second subtle Stiefel-Whitney class. Moreover, I will reduce the problem of computing the remaining part of the motivic cohomology ring of BSpinn to the problem of checking the regularity of a certain sequence in a polynomial ring. Finally, I will conclude by deducing from this computation some information on the kernel invariant of Spin-torsors or, which is the same, quadratic forms from I3. |
On a serious note: this seminar consists of weekly talks held at the Maths Institute of the University of Warwick.
Times and places can vary throughout the year: please check the updated calendar below.
Abstracts for past talks can be found at the link at the top of the page.
Upcoming Talks
Term 1 |
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Speaker |
Title |
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Fri 5/10/2018 2-3pm |
MS.05 |
Aurelio Carlucci (University of Oxford) |
Moduli spaces of stable pairs on the conifold, and quiver representations |
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Mon 8/10/2018 4-5pm |
B1.01 |
Lorenzo De Biase (Cardiff University) |
Generalised braid categorification |
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Mon 15/10/2018 4-5pm |
B1.01 |
Lucas Das Dores (University of Liverpool) |
Symmetric powers of varieties and rational equivalence of 0-cycles |
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Mon 22/10/2018 4-5pm |
B1.01 |
Peter Spacek (University of Kent) |
Mirror Symmetry for Homogeneous Spaces |
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Mon 29/10/2018 4-5pm |
B1.01 |
Alessandro Bigazzi (University of Warwick) |
Degenerations of conic bundles in any characteristic |
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Mon 12/11/2018 4-5pm |
B1.01 |
Matt Booth (University of Edinburgh) |
Deformation Theory |
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Mon 19/11/2018 4-5pm |
B1.01 |
Gaia Comaschi (Université Lille-I) |
Pfaffian representations of cubic threefolds and instanton bundles |
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Mon 26/11/2018 4-5pm |
B1.01 |
Aeran Fleming (University of Liverpool) |
Multipoint Seshadri constants and explicit Kähler packings of projective complex manifolds. |
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Mon 3/12/2018 4-5pm |
B1.01 |
James Plowman (University of Warwick) |
The Chow-Witt group of a scheme with dualising complex |
Term 2 |
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Date/Time |
Room |
Speaker |
Title |
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Mon 14/01/2019 4-5pm |
B1.01 |
Angelica Simonetti (UMass Amherst) |
On cusps singularities and their smoothability |
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Mon 21/01/2019 4-5pm |
B1.01 |
Dominic Foord (University of Liverpool) |
Birational Rigidity of higher dimensional Fano spaces |
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Mon 28/01/2019 Afternoon 1-7pm |
B3.03/ B1.01 |
CALF1-2pm, B3.03 - Caitlin McAuley (Sheffield) - The spaces of 2-3pm - Coffee Break in Maths Common Room 3-4pm, B1.01 - Matt Booth (Edinburgh) - Contraction algebras 4-4.30pm - Coffee Break in Maths Common Room 4.30-5.30pm, B1.01 - Ben Morley (Cambridge) - Motivating mirror symmetry and the Gross-Siebert program Dinner |
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Mon 04/02/2019 4-5pm |
B1.01 |
Tim Grange (Loughborough University) |
Blow-ups of products of projective spaces |
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Mon 11/02/2019 |
B1.01 |
Matthias Nickel (Goethe University Frankfurt) |
Newton-Okounkov bodies of exceptional curve valuations |
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Mon 18/02/2019 |
B1.01 |
Giulia Gugiatti (LSGNT) |
Hyperelliptic integrals and mirrors of the Johnson-Kollár del Pezzo surfaces |
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Mon 25/02/2019 |
B1.01 |
Edwin Kutas (University of Warwick) |
Torus actions and Fanos |
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Mon 04/03/2019 |
B1.01 |
Maria Gioia Cifani (Università di Pavia) |
On the monodromy group of projections |
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Mon 11/03/2019 |
B1.01 |
Eugenia Ferrari (University of Bergen) |
An Enriques Theorem in Characteristic p |
Term 3 |
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Date/Time |
Room |
Speaker |
Title |
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Mon 29/04/2019 4-5pm |
B3.03 |
Tiago Duarte-Guerreiro (Loughborough University) |
Bond theory for the analysis of mobile linkages |
| Mon 13/05/2019 4-5pm |
B3.03 |
Karin Schaller (Freie Universität Berlin) |
Stringy Invariants, Toric Varieties, and Lattice Polytopes |
| Mon 20/05/2019 4-5pm |
B3.03 |
Chris Seaman |
Perverse Schobers |
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Fri 31/05/2019 2-3pm |
B3.02 |
Mauro Fortuna (University of Hannover) |
Cohomology of the moduli space of non-hyperelliptic genus four curves |
| Mon 03/06/2018 4-5pm |
B3.03 |
Giovanni Marchetti (University of Sheffield) |
Higher Categories in Mirror Symmetry |
| Mon 10/06/2018 4-5pm |
B3.03 |
Fabio Tanania (University of Nottingham) |
Subtle characteristic classes for Spin-torsors |
| Mon 24/06/2018 4-5pm |
B3.03 |
Ai Guan (Lancaster University) |
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Organisers:
If you wish to give a talk, or know someone interested in it, please do not hesitate to contact us.