Meetings of the COW seminar in 2015-2016
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London, Thursday 5th November 2015
1:30 Steven Bradlow (Urbana-Champaign): Higgs bundles, spectral data, and fiber products of curves
2:50 Christian Böhning (Warwick): Dynamical spectra and rationality -
Oxford, Thursday 26th November 2015
1.30 Alexander Braverman (Brown University): Recent advances in symplectic duality
2.45 Martin Ulirsch (University of Bonn): The moduli stack of tropical curves -
Cardiff, Thursday 10th December 2015
2:00 Alessandra Sarti (Potiers): Pell's equation and automorphisms of K3[2]
3:30 Agnieszka Bodzenta-Skibinska (Edinburgh): Flops and spherical functors -
London, Thursday 10th March 2016
2:00 Kai Behrend (Vancouver): The spectrum of the inertia operator on the motivic Hall algebra
3:20 Behrang Noohi (London QMUL): String operations on stacks
5:00 Travis Schedler (London IC): Symplectic resolutions of quiver and character varieties -
Bristol, Thursday 24th March 2016
1:00 Frédéric Mangolte (Angers): Fake real planes: exotic affine algebraic models of R2
2:15 Clelia Pech (Kent): Motivic integration for some varieties with a torus action
4:00 Michael Wemyss (Edinburgh): On the classification of 3-fold flops -
Cambridge, Thursday 21st April 2016
11:30 Genival Da Silva (St Louis): Surfaces with exceptional monodromy
2:15 Ravi Vakil (Stanford): Cutting and pasting in algebraic geometry
4:00 Mark Gross (Cambridge): Mirror symmetry -
Oxford, Monday 11th July 2016
1.30 Dominic Joyce (Oxford): Categorification of shifted symplectic geometry using perverse sheaves
2.45 Nigel Hitchin (Oxford): Higgs bundles and determinant divisors
4.30 Andrei Okounkov (Columbia): Monodromy and derived equivalences
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