Meetings of the COW seminar in 2023-2024
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University of Cambridge, Thursday 2nd November 2023
1:00 Jesus Martinez Garcia (Essex): Computational Geometric Invariant Theory
2:30 Nicholas Shepherd-Barron (King's College London): Schiffer's theme
4:00 Luca Giovenzana (Sheffield): Type II degenerations of K3 surfaces, pseudolattices, and mirror symmetry -
Queen Mary University of London, Thursday 1st December 2023
2:00 Nivedita Viswanathan (Brunel): Higher Fano Manifolds
3:30 Timothy Logvinenko (Cardiff): Skein-triangulated representations of generalised braids
4:45 Christian Böhning (Warwick): Equivariant birational types and derived categories -
University of Nottingham, Thursday 25th January 2024
1:00 Travis Schedler (Imperial College London): Crepant resolutions of stratified varieties by gluing
2:30 Fatemeh Rezaee (Cambridge): Constructing smoothings of stable maps
4:00 Jenia Tevelev (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Semi-Orthogonal Decompositions of Moduli Spaces -
University of Essex, Thursday 15th February 2024
1:00 Victoria Hoskins (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen): Motivic mirror symmetry for Higgs bundles
2:45 Balázs Szendrői (Vienna): The projective coinvariant algebra
4:00 Tim Magee (King's College London): Fundamentals of Broken Line Convex Geometry -
University of Bath, Thursday 14th March 2024
1:15 Itay Glazer (Oxford): On singularity properties of word maps and applications to random walks on compact p-adic groups
2:45 Gergely Bérczi (Aarhus): Geometry of the Hilbert scheme of points on manifolds
4:15 Dominic Bunnett (TU Berlin): Geometry of some moduli spaces of hypersurfaces -
University of Liverpool, Thursday 2nd May 2024
1:00 Rob Silversmith (Warwick): r-spin theory and tropical geometry
2:30 Navid Nabijou (Queen Mary): Logarithms, roots, and negative tangencies
4:00 Barbara Fantechi (SISSA): Moduli of zero dimensional coherent sheaves -
Cardiff University, Thursday 27th June 2024
2:00 Ed Segal (UCL): The McKay correspondence via VGIT
3:30 Evgeny Shinder (Sheffield): Gromov's cancellation question in birational algebraic geometry
5:00 Erroxe Etxabarri Alberdi (Warwick): 1-dimensional components of the K-moduli of Fano 3-folds -
Queen Mary University of London, Thursday 29th August 2024
2:00 David Favero (Minnesota): Homotopy Path Algebras and Resolutions
3:30 Nicholas Proudfoot (Oregon): The algebraic geometry of Kazhdan-Lusztig-Stanley polynomials
5:00 Marta Benozzo (UCL/LSGNT): Anti-Iitaka conjecture in positive characteristic - UK Algebraic Geometry Network meeting in Durham, 11-12 September 2024
The annual meeting of the UK Algebraic Geometry Network.
Wednesday 11th September:
1:30 Daniele Turchetti (Durham): Degenerations of varieties through the lens of non-Archimedean geometry
3:00 Holly Krieger (Cambridge): Dynamical degrees of birational maps
4:30 Alessio Corti (Imperial): Birational geometry of log structuresThursday 12th September:
9:15 Thibault Poiret (St Andrews): Spaces of roots of universal line bundles
10:45 Arman Sarikyan (LIMS): On the rationality of Fano-Enriques threefolds
12:00 Simon Felten (Oxford): Global logarithmic deformation theory
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