Main Page/Reading Seminar Deformation Theory (Summer 2025)

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We are meeting online for the summer. (For accessibility reasons, perhaps we should record talks).

Meetings are Thursdays 2pm-3pm on Zoom.

Tentative schedule

date speaker title topics
06/12/2025 Dima Introduction To Deformation Theory First order deformations, first order deformations of Grassmannians, and first order deformations of the Hilbert scheme
06/19/2025 Dima Introduction to Deformation Theory Part II Higher order deformations, deformation theory, deformation of modules, how to view D(k[e]/(e^2)) as a k-vector space via the functor of points
06/26/2025 Dima
07/03/2025 Break! No Talk For This Week! Enjoy the Holidays!

References

If you have other suggestions, please share (or just add to this list!).

  1. Henry Liu's notes for Daniel Litt's course on Deformation Theory
  2. Artin's Lectures on Deformations of Singularities
  3. Hartshorne's "Deformation Theory"
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