Meetings of the COW seminar in 2022-2023
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University of Oxford, Thursday 17th November 2022
1:30 Soheyla Feyzbakhsh (Imperial): Hyperkähler varieties as Brill-Noether loci on curves
3:00 Andrea Brini (Sheffield): Curve counting on surfaces and topological strings
4:30 Calum Spicer (KCL): Moduli part of general fibrations and foliations -
Loughborough University, Thursday 1st December 2022
1:00 Damian Rössler (Oxford): A local form of the Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch in degree one
2:30 Eleonore Faber (Leeds): Discriminants of pseudo-reflection groups and noncommutative resolutions
4:00 Qaasim Shafi (Birmingham): Divisors on logarithmic mapping spaces -
70 Miles - University of Warwick, 8th and 9th December 2022
A special two-day meeting to (belatedly) celebrate the 70th birthday of Miles Reid.
Thursday 8th December
12:00 Inder Kaur (Loughborough)
2:00 Ali Craw (Bath)
4:00 Rohini Ramadas (Warwick)
Friday 9th December
9:00 Michael Wemyss (Glasgow) - COW meets EAGLE - University of Birmingham, 2nd and 3rd February 2023
A joint meeting with Enumerative Algebraic Geometry en LibertÉ (EAGLE).
Thursday 2nd February:
1:30 Cristina Manolache (Sheffield): Desingularizations of sheaves and reduced invariants
3:15 Sabrina Pauli (Essen-Duisburg): Quadratically refined enumerative geometry
4:30 Ben Davison (Edinburgh): Nonabelian Hodge theory for stacksFriday 3rd February:
10:00 Mark Gross (Cambridge): Intrinsic mirror symmetry
11:30 Tim Gräfnitz (Cambridge): Mirror symmetry for (P2,E) and tropical geometry
2:00 Michel van Garrel (Birmingham): The prism of intrinsic mirror symmetry -
University of Sheffield, Thursday 9th March 2023
1:00 Fan Qin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University): Bracelets are theta functions for surface cluster algebras
2:30 Johannes Hofscheier (Nottingham): The generalised Mukai conjecture for spherical Fano varieties
4:00 Elena Denisova (Edinburgh): K-stable smooth Fano theefolds -
COW at the British Mathematical Colloquium in Bath, Monday 3rd April 2023
3:00 Evgeny Shinder (Sheffield & Bonn): Gromov's question on birational maps and the structure of the Grothendieck ring
3:40 Alan Thompson (Loughborough): Pseudolattices, degenerations, and fibrations of K3 surfaces
4:20 Inder Kaur (Loughborough): Birational geometry on blow-ups of projective spaces
5:00 Sergey Mozgovoy (Trinity College Dublin): Stability conditions of low global dimension -
King's College London, Thursday 18th May 2023
1:00 Laura Schaposnik (University of Illinois Chicago/Oxford): A map of Higgs bundles, generalized hyperpolygons, and more
2:30 Hal Schenck (Auburn/Oxford): Dynamical systems meet algebraic geometry: From Kuramoto oscillators to Segre varieties
4:00 Liana Heuberger (Bath): Combinatorial Reid's recipe for consistent dimer models -
Cardiff University, Thursday 22nd June 2023
2:00 Nikos Tziolas (Cyprus/Edinburgh): Automorphism group schemes of surfaces of general type in positive characteristic
3:30 Tom Bridgeland (Sheffield): An unexpected journey: from triangulated categories to hyperkahler geometry
5:00 Paolo Cascini (Imperial): Foliated flops over a complex threefold - UK Algebraic Geometry Network meeting in Nottingham, 14-15 September 2023
The inaugural meeting of the UK Algebraic Geometry Network.
Thursday 14th September:
1:00 Rohini Ramadas (Warwick): Intersections of tropical psi classes in genus zero, with non-trivial valuations
2:30 Emily Norton (Kent): Parabolic Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials and oriented Temperley-Lieb algebras
4:30 Nelly Villamizar (Swansea): Multivariate splines in algebraic geometryFriday 15th September:
9:30 Gwyn Bellamy (Glasgow): Birational geometry of quiver varieties
11:00 Dominic Joyce (Oxford): The structure of invariants counting coherent sheaves on complex surfaces
1:30 Ruadhaí Dervan (Glasgow): Valuations and stability of projective varieties
3:00 Richard Thomas (Imperial): The quantum Lefschetz principle
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