Past Algebraic Geometry Seminars - Fall 99

NUMBER THEORY/ALGEBRAIC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY SEMINAR
Tuesday, September 21, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 300. 
Haruzo Hida of UCLA will speak on Modular Galois Representation of "Neben" type.
Refreshments will be served in Krieger 211 at 4:00 p.m.
Abstract

ALGEBRAIC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY SEMINAR
Tuesday, September 28, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 300. 
Werner Kleinert of Humboldt University at Berlin will speak on The Irreducible Components of the Singular Locus in Moduli Spaces of Curves.
Refreshments will be served in Krieger 211 at 3:30 p.m.
Abstract

ALGEBRAIC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY SEMINAR
Tuesday, October 5, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 300. 
Ivan Cheltsov of Johns Hopkins University will speak on Finite groups and birational automorphisms of Fano 3-folds. Refreshments will be served in Krieger 211 at 3:30 p.m.
Abstract

COMPLEX GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
Tuesday, October 19, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 300. 
Nguyen Viet Dung of Hanoi Institute of Mathematics will speak on Braid monodromy and homotopy of complex line arrangements.

ALGEBRIAC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY SEMINAR
Tuesday, November 2, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 300. 
Professor Tyurin of Steklov University will speak on "Pseudosymplectic geometry as an extension of symplectic geometry."

ALGEBRIAC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY SEMINAR
Wednesday, November 10, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 300. 
Karen E. Smith of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor  will speak on "Multiplier Ideals and Test ideals."
Abstract.

ALGEBRIAC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY SEMINAR
Tuesday, November 23, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 300. 
Vyacheslav Shokurov of Johns Hopkins University will speak on "Log flips."

ALGEBRAIC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY / GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS JOINT SEMINAR
Tuesday, November 30, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 300. 
Xiaojun Huang of Rutgers University will speak on "Mappings between balls in complex spaces of different dimensions."

ALGEBRAIC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY SEMINAR
Wednesday, December 8, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 300. 
of University of Tubingen will speak on "McKay correspondence for quotient singularities and  nonarchimedean integration."

Past Algebraic Geometry Seminars - Spring 99 

Tuesday, January 26, 4:00 pm in Krieger 308 
Andrei Tyurin will speak on Algebro-geometrical aspects of the Mirror Symmetry.

Monday, February 8, 4:30 pm in Krieger 300
Florin Ambro of Johns Hopkins University will speak On the inverse of adjunction. Applications.
 
Wednesday, February 10, 4:00 pm in Krieger 300
MATH/PHYSICS SEMINAR / ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY 
Tony Pantev of University of Pennsylvania will speak on Mirror symmetry and vector bundles. Abstract. 
 
Wednesday, February 17, 4:00 pm in Krieger 300
Kenji Matsuki of Purdue University will speak on Birational cobordism and factorization of birational maps.
Wednesday, February 24, 4:00 pm in Krieger 300
JOINT ALGEBRAIC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY & MATH/PHYSICS SEMINAR 
Alexander Polishchuk of Harvard University will speak on Homological mirror symmetry. 

Wednesday, March 24, 4:00 pm in Krieger 308
Mark de Cataldo of Harvard University will speak on The Decomposition Theorem: Hilbert schemes and Heisenberg algebras.

Thursday, April 1, 4:00 pm in Krieger 308
Florin Ambro of Johns Hopkins University will speak on Precise inverse of adjunction.

Wednesday, April 7, 4:00 pm in Krieger 308
JOINT ALGEBRAIC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY/NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Yuri Tschinkel of University of Illinois at Chicago will speak on Rational points on algebraic varieties.

Thursday, April 8, 3:00 pm in Krieger 308
Yuri Tschinkel of University of Illinois at Chicago will speak on Equivariant compactifications of vector groups.

Thursday, April 15, 4:00 pm in Krieger 308

Florin Ambro of Johns Hopkins University will speak on Precise inverse of adjunction, II.

Thursday, April 22, 4:00 pm in Krieger 308
Jihun Park of Johns Hopkins University will speak on Pure log terminal models.

Wednesday, April 28, 4:00 pm in Krieger 300
Y. Kachi of Johns Hopkins University will speak on Generalization of the Kobayashi--Ochiai theorem and Shokurov non-vanishing.

Thursday, April 29, 4:30 pm in Krieger 308
Jihun Park of Johns Hopkins University will speak on Pure log terminal models.

Past Algebraic Geometry Seminars - Fall 1998 

Tuesday, September 15, 4:30 pm in Krieger 308
Werner Kleinert of Humboldt University will speak on Quillen metrics, Petersson-Weil classes, and the geometry of moduli spaces.

Wednesday, September 16, 4:00 pm in Krieger 300
Ivan Cheltsov of Johns Hopkins University will speak on Birational transformations of double quadric.

Wednesday, September 23, 4:00 pm in Krieger 300
Werner Kleinert of Humboldt University will speak on Higher Brill-Noether theory and generalized theta function.

Tuesday, September 29, 4:30 pm in Krieger 308
Dale Cutkosky of University of Missouri will speak on Local factorization of birational maps, I.

Wednesday, September 30, 4:00 pm in Krieger 300
Dale Cutkosky of University of Missouri will speak on Local factorization of birational maps, II. Local factorization of birational maps, II. Local factorization of birational maps, II.

Tuesday, October 6, 4:30 pm in Krieger 308
Ivan Cheltsov of Johns Hopkins University will speak on Birational transformations of double quadric, Part I.

Wednesday, October 7, 4:00 pm in Krieger 300
Ivan Cheltsov of Johns Hopkins University will speak on Birational transformations of double quadric, Part II.

Tuesday, October 13, 4:30 pm in Krieger 308
Ivan Cheltsov of Johns Hopkins University will speak on Birational transformations of double quadric, Part III.

Tuesday, October 20, 4:30 pm in Krieger 308
Alexandr Borisov of Penn State University will speak on Classification of toric singularities, I.

Wednesday, October 21, 4:00 pm in Krieger 300
Alexandr Borisov of Penn State University will speak on Classification of toric singularities, II. Classification of toric singularities, II.

Tuesday, October 27, 4:30 pm in Krieger 308
Caryn Werner of Towson State University will speak on Surfaces of general type with low invariants.

Wednesday, October 28, 4:00 pm in Krieger 300
Ivan Cheltsov of the Johns Hopkins University will speak on One theorem of Corti.

Tuesday, November 3, 4:30 pm in Krieger 308
Ivan Cheltsov of the Johns Hopkins University will speak on Log pairs on hypersurfaces of degree N in P^N.

Wednesday, November 4, 4:00 pm in Krieger 300
Sandor Kovacs of the University of Chicago will speak On rational, Du Bois and log canonical singularities.

Tuesday, November 10, 4:30 pm in Krieger 308
Bernard Shiffman of the Johns Hopkins University will speak on Hyperbolic surfaces in P3.

Wednesday, November 11, 4:00 pm in Krieger 300
Bernard Shiffman of the Johns Hopkins University will speak on Divisors on cartesian and symmetric squares of curves of genus > 1:  some open problems.

Tuesday, November 17, 4:30 pm in Krieger 308
Florin Ambro of the Johns Hopkins University will speak On the adjunction conjecture.
Tuesday, November 24, 4:30 pm in Krieger 308
Florin Ambro of the Johns Hopkins University will speak on Base point freeness of adjoint linear systems.

Past Algebraic Geometry Seminars - Spring 98 

Wednesday, January 28, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308
Bernard Shiffman of the Johns Hopkins University will speak on Nevanlinna Theory (holomorphic curves in algebraic varieties): A short survey.

Tuesday, February 3, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308
Mark Goresky of the Institute for Advanced Study will speak on Chern classes of modular varieties.
Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in Krieger 209.

Tuesday, February 10, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308
Shanyu Ji of the University of Houston and JHU will speak on Global holomorphic extension of local map and the Riemann mapping theorem for algebraic domains.

Wednesday, February 11, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308
Florin Ambro of the Johns Hopkins University will speak on Building Singularities--Toward Fujita Conjecture on Non-vanishing and Freeness.

Tuesday, February 17, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308
Mattias Jonsson of Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm) will speak on External rays for polynomial maps of C2.

Tuesday, February 24, 1998, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308
Viktor Bukhtaber of MGU will speak on Cobordism and Toric Varieties.

JOINT ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY AND ALGEBRAIC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY SEMINAR
Wednesday, February 25, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308
Florin Ambro of the Johns Hopkins University will speak on Building Singularities--Toward Fujita Conjecture on Non-vanishing and Freeness, Supplementary discussion

Tuesday, March 3, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308
Kensho Takegoshi of the Osaka University and Johns Hopkins University will speak on A volume estimate for strong subharmonicity and maximum principle on complete manifolds.

JOINT ALGEBRAIC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY AND PDE/GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Wednesday, March 4, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308
Hajime Tsuji of Tokyo Institute and the Johns Hopkins University will speak on On the structure of pluricanonical systems.

Tuesday, March 10, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308
Steven Lu of University of Waterloo will speak on Algebraic degeneracy of Brody curves and complex hyperbolicity.

Wednesday, March 11, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308
Shigeharu Takayama of Osaka University will speak on Nonvanishing Theorems on an Algebraic Variety with Large Fundamental Group.

Past Algebraic Geometry Seminars - Fall 97 

Tuesday, September 9, 1997, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308
Florin Ambro of The Johns Hopkins University will speak on Laddes on Fano's.

Wednesday, September 17, 1997, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308
Junjiro Noguchi of Tokyo Institute of Technology will speak on Hyperbolic manifolds and diophantine geometry. .

JOINT ALGEBRAIC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY AND JAMI SEMINAR
Tuesday, September 23, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308
Yasuyuki Kachi of The Johns Hopkins University will speak on 4-Dimensional Small Contractions and Flips.

Tuesday, September 30, 1997, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308
Masaharu Tanabe of Tokyo Institute of Technology and The Johns Hopkins University will speak on Severi's Theorem.

JOINT ALGEBRAIC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY AND JAMI SEMINAR
Wednesday, October 1, 1997, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308
Terutake Abe of The Johns Hopkins University will speak on Classification of Exceptional Complements "Elliptic Curve Case".

Tuesday, October 7, 1997, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308
Werner Kleinert of The Humboldt University, Berlin and The Johns Hopkins University will speak on Moduli spaces of curves and the Polyakov measures in string theories.

Wednesday, October 8, 1997, 3:30 p.m., Krieger 308
Terutake Abe of The Johns Hopkins University will speak on Classification of ExceptionalComplements "Elliptic Curve Case" Part II.

Tuesday, October 14, 1997, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308
Ivan Cheltsov of The Johns Hopkins University will speak on Elliptic fiberings on Fano varieties

Wednesday, October 29, 1997, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308
Ivan Cheltsov of The Johns Hopkins University will speak on Numerical Del Pezzo Surface with Non-Rational Singularities.

Wednesday, November 5, 1997, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308
Ivan Cheltsov of The Johns Hopkins University will speak on Numerical Del Pezzo Surface with Non-Rational Singularities, Part II.

Tuesday, November 11, 1997, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308
Brendan Weickert of University of Chicago and Harvard University will speak on Dynamics of holomorphic mappings near neutral fixed points.

JOINT ALGEBRAIC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY AND JAMI SEMINAR
Wednesday, November 12, 1997, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308
Florin Ambro of The Johns Hopkins University will speak on Ladders on Fano varieties .

Friday, November 14, 1997, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308
Sean Keel of The University of Texas at Austin will speak on Quotients by groupoids.

Tuesday, November 18, 1997, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308
Dmitri Markushevich of The Lille University and The Johns Hopkins University will speak on Lagrangian families on projective algebraic symplectic varieties.

Tuesday, November 25, 1997, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308
Ziv Ran of The University of California, Riverside will speak on Enumerative geometry without quantum cohomology.

Wednesday, November 26, 1997, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308
Takayasu Kuwata of The University of Utah will speak on Log-canonical thresholds of hypersurface singularities.

Wednesday, December 3, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308
Xianfang Liu of the Johns Hopkins University will speak on Automorphisms of algebraic curves.

Thursday, December 4, 2:30 p.m., Krieger 211
Alexandru Tupan of the Johns Hopkins University will speak on The functional equation of Riemann's Zeta function.

Past Algebraic Geometry Seminars - Spring 97 

Monday, February 3, 3:00 p.m., Krieger 308
Michael Yampolsky, SUNY-Stony Brook will speak on Intertwining Surgery and the Geography of the Cubic Connectedness Locus.
Abstract

A JOINT ALGEBRAIC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY AND P.D.E./GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Tuesday, February 11, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 304
Tatiana Bandman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel will speak on The estimates of the number of rational maps and topology of algebraic varieties.

SPONSORED BY THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS.
Tuesday, February 18, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308
Bao Qin Li, Boston College will speak on On the Bezout estimate and interpolation in C^n.

SPONSORED BY THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS.
Tuesday, February 25, 3:00 p.m., Krieger 308
Ivan Cheltsov, Johns Hopkins University will speak on Pukhlikov's results on birational automorphisms of del Pezzo fibrations.

Tuesday, March 4, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 211
Sadok Kallel, Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, University of Montreal will speak on Configurations, Scanning Maps and Poincare Dualities.

A JOINT ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY/ALGEBRAIC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY SEMINAR.
Friday, March 14, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308
Andrei Tyurin, Steklov Institute, Moscow, Russia will speak on Semi-holomorphic bundles

Monday, March 24, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 211
Walter Baily, University of Chicago will speak on Unusual Moduli Problems, II.

Tuesday, April 1, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308
V. Baranovskii, University of Chicago will speak on Torsion free sheaves on algebraic surfaces.

Tuesday, April 8, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308
Florin Ambro, Johns Hopkins University will speak on Mela's results on Fano-Mukai varieties.

Tuesday, April 15, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308
James D. Lewis, University of Alberta, Canada will speak on The influence of Hodge structures on Chow groups.
Abstract

Past Algebraic Geometry Seminars - Fall 96 

Tuesday, September 17, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 304
William Minicozzi, Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University will speak on Harmonic functions on manifolds.

Tuesday, September 24, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 304
Werner Kleinert , Department of Mathematics, Humboldt University will speak on Generalized Krichever correspondences and vector bundles.

Tuesday, October 1, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 304
Ivan Cheltsov , Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University will speak on Rationality of projective 3-folds whose hyperplane section is an Enriques surface.

Tuesday, October 22, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 304
Robert Molzon , Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky will speak on Projectively Invariant Differential Operators.

Thursday, October 24, 2:00 p.m., UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK, Math Building Room 1308
Sai-Kee Yeung , Department of Mathematics, Purdue University will speak on Conjecture of Lang about the hyperbolicity of the complement of an ample divisor in an abelian variety.
JOINT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MATHEMATICS SEMINAR

Friday, October 25, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 304
Bruno de Oliveira , Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University will speak on Curves on surfaces under deformations.

Tuesday, November 12, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 304
Jihun Park , Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University will speak on Weierstrass points of bi-elliptic curves.

Tuesday, November 19, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 211
Pawel Gajer, Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University will speak on The Dold-Thom theorem for intersection homology.

JOINT ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY AND ALGEBRAIC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY SEMINAR
Tuesday, November 26, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 304
Ching-Li Chai, Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania will speak on Hecke orbits on the moduli of abelian varieties.
JOINT NUMBER THEORY AND ALGEBRAIC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY SEMINAR

Tuesday, December 3, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 304
Paul Vojta, University of California, Berkeley and Institute for Advanced Study will speak on Schmidt's Subspace Theorem with moving targets.
JOINT NUMBER THEORY/ALGEBRAIC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY SEMINAR.

Past Algebraic Geometry Seminars - Spring 96 

Tuesday, March 5, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308

Igor Dolgachev, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan will speak on Modular curves and K3 surfaces.

 

Tuesday, March 12, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308

Andrei Tyurin, Steklov Institute, Moscow will speak on On the most invariant of CP2.

 

Tuesday, March 26, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308

Mei-Chu Chang, Institute for Advanced Study and University of California, Riverside will speak on The Chern numbers of 3-folds.

 

Thursday, August 15, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 211

Xian Wu, Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina will speak on Limits and refined residual intersections.

Past Algebraic Geometry Seminars - Fall 95 

Tuesday, September 19, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 304

Werner Kleinert, Department of Mathematics, Humbolt University, Berlin, Germany will speak on Special complete curves in the moduli spaces of compact Riemann surfaces.

Tuesday, October 10, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 304

Alexander Eremenko, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University will speak On a conjecture of Cartan.

 

Wednesday, October 18, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308

Kenji Matsuki, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University will speak on Mumford-Thaddeus principle on moduli space of vector bundles on an algebraic surface.

 

Wednesday, October 25, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308

Yujiro Kawamata, Department of Mathematics, University of Tokyo will speak on Vanishing theorem and singularity of divisors. Vanishing theorem and singularity of divisors.

Wednesday, November 1, 4:30 p.m., Krieger 308

Toshiyuki Katsura, Department of Mathematics, University of Tokyo will speak on Moduli of principally polorized Abelian surfaces in characteristic p.

 

Tuesday, November 7, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 304

Nikolai Gordeev, Department of Mathematics, Russian State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg will speak on Decompositions in algebraic groups and their applications.

 

Monday, November 20, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308

Vladimir Logvinenko, will speak on Rational functions with disjoint graphs.

 

Tuesday, November 21, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 308

David Butler, Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University will speak on Brill Noether theory for vector bundles.

 

Tuesday, November 28, 4:00 p.m., Krieger 304

Shouwu Zhang, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University will speak on Heights of Heegner Cycles.