Meetings of the COW seminar in 2000-2001
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Cambridge, Thursday 26th October 2000
11:30 Serguei Barannikov (Paris): Semi-infinite variations of Hodge structures and WDVV-equations
14:00 Serguei Barannikov (Paris): Quantum periods and mirror symmetry in higher dimensions
15:30 Michael Thaddeus (New York): Mirror symmetry, Langlands duality and the Hitchin system
17:00 Igor Dolgachev (Ann Arbor): Rational surfaces with many nodes -
Oxford, Thursday 2nd November 2000
2:00 Conan Leung (Minneapolis): Mirror symmetry without corrections
4:00 Paul Hacking (Cambridge): A compactification of the moduli space of plane curves -
London, Friday 15th December 2000
12:00 Simon Donaldson (London): Scalar curvature and projective embeddings
2:00 Simon Donaldson (London): Scalar curvature, convex geometry and toric varieties
4:00 Gregory Sankaran (Bath): Abelian surfaces with bilevel structure -
Warwick, Thursday 1st February 2001
2:00 Maria Vasquez-Gallo (Madrid): Degree of varieties of singular cubic surfaces
4:00 Adrian Langer (Warwick): Logarithmic orbifold Euler numbers and applications -
Bath, Thursday 22nd February 2001
2:00 V. Balaji (Madras): Semistable reduction for principal bundles
4:00 Richard Thomas (London): Lagrangians and special Lagrangians -
COW extended activity, Cambridge, 8th-10th March 2001
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Thursday 8th March
3:00 Paul Hacking (Cambridge): Compactification of the moduli space of plane curves II
4:30 Miles Reid (Warwick): Semistable flips according to Mori -
Friday 9th March
3:00 Jonathan Wahl (Chapel Hill): Universal Abelian coverings of surface singularities
4:30 Roberto Pignatelli (Göttingen): Canonical linear systems with base points on surfaces -
Saturday 10th March
10:00 Justin Sawon (Oxford): Rozansky-Witten theory and TQFT
11:30 Jan Stevens (Gothenburg): Deformations of Kurke-LeBrun spaces
2:00 Jarek Wisniewski (Warsaw): The hard Lefschetz theorem and topology of contractions
3:30 Alessio Corti (Cambridge): Weak factorization after Abramovich-Matsuki-Wlodarczyk
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Thursday 8th March
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Liverpool, Tuesday 15th May 2001
2:00 Miles Reid (Warwick): K3 surfaces and Fano 3-folds
3:30 Fabio Pioli (Trieste): Real Fourier-Mukai transforms
5:00 Ivan Cheltsov (Liverpool): Log canonical thresholds on hypersurfaces -
COW extended activity, Warwick, 13th-15th June 2001
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Wednesday 13th June
2:00 Vincent Mercat (Paris): Brill-Noether theory for rank 2 bundles
3:30 Margarida Mendes Lopes (Lisbon): The bicanonical map
5:00 Caryn Werner (Towson): Godeaux surfaces -
Thursday 14th June
9:00 Frank Schreyer (Bayreuth): Resultants, Chowforms and syzygies over the exterior algebra
10:30 Joseph Le Potier (Paris): Strange duality on surfaces
12:00 Gentiana Danila (Warwick): On the cohomology of the tautological sheaf on the punctual Hilbert scheme of a surface (again)
2:00 Rita Pardini (Pisa): Varieties of large Albanese dimension
3:30 Nikos Tziolas (Warwick): Extremal terminal 3-fold divisorial contractions of a surface to a curve
5:00 Masayuki Kawakita (Tokyo): Divisorial extractions from 3-fold Gorenstein singularities -
Friday 15th June
9:30 Nick Shepherd-Barron (Cambridge): Tangent lifting for deformations in mixed characteristic
11:00 Adrian Langer (Warwick): Semistable sheaves in mixed characteristic
1:00 Balazs Szendroi (Warwick): Artin group actions and enhanced gauge symmetry
2:30 Alastair Craw (Warwick): GIT variants of C3/G
4:00 Frances Kirwan (Oxford): Group valued moment maps
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Wednesday 13th June
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