Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Washington University, St. Louis

Fall 2009

Cupples I, Room 115, 4:30--5:30 PM.

Date Speaker Title
September 9, 2:30--4:00
(Eads Hall, Room 211)
Mohan Kumar (Washington University) On Unimodular Rows
September 16 Wei Deng (Washington University) Geometry of smooth cubic threefolds
September 23 Sara Beigi (Washington University) Smoothness of Hilbert scheme of ropes
September 30
Joseph Landsberg (Texas A&M)
cancelled
Some algebraic geometry useful for signal processing, statistics and complexity theory
October 7 -- --
October 14 No talk at WashU. Zhenbo Qin gives a talk at UMSL --
October 21 Arno van den Essen (University of Nijmegen) The Amazing Image Conjecture (Part 1)
October 28 Arno van den Essen (University of Nijmegen) The Amazing Image Conjecture (Part 2)
November 4
(Colloquium, Room 199)
Dragos Oprea (UC San Diego) Generalized theta functions
November 11 No seminar --
November 18 Ravindra Girivaru (UMSL) TBA
November 25 No seminar (Thanksgiving break) --
December 4
(Colloquium, Room 199)
Joseph Landsberg (Texas A&M) TBA
December 9 TBA TBA