Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Fall 2021

The Seminar will take place on Fridays at 2:30 pm, either virtually (via Zoom) or in person, in room B235 Van Vleck.

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COVID-19 Update

As a result of Covid-19, the seminar for this semester will be a mix of virtual and in-person talks. The default Zoom link for the seminar is https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/9502605167 (sometimes we will have to use a different meeting link, if Michael K cannot host that day).

Fall 2021 Schedule

date	speaker	title	host/link to talk
September 24	Michael Kemeny (local, in person)	The Rank of Syzygies
October 1	Michael K Brown (Auburn University)	Tate resolutions as noncommutative Fourier-Mukai transforms		Daniel
October 8	Yi (Peter) Wei (local)	Geometric Syzygy Conjecture in char p, with reveries from Ogus’ result on a versal deformation of K3 surfaces		Michael
October 15	Michael Perlman (Minnesota; virtual)			Daniel
October 22	Ritvik Ramkumar (UC Berkeley)	Something about Hilbert schemes, probably		Daniel
October 29	CA+ meeting [ https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~cberkesc/CA/CA2021.html]
November 5	Eric Ramos	Equivariant log-concavity
November 12
November 19
November 26	Thanksgiving
December 3
December 10

Abstracts

Michael Kemeny

Title: The Rank of Syzygies

Abstract: I will explain a notion of rank for the relations amongst the equations of a projective variety. This notion generalizes the classical notion of rank of a quadric and is just as interesting! I will spend most of the talk developing this notion but will also explain one result which tells us that, for a randomly chosen canonical curve, you expect all the linear syzygies to have the lowest possible rank. This is a sweeping generalization of old results of Andreotti-Mayer, Harris-Arbarello and Green, which tell us that canonical curves are defined by quadrics of rank four.

Michael Brown

Title: Tate resolutions as noncommutative Fourier-Mukai transforms

Abstract: This is joint work with Daniel Erman. The classical Bernstein-Gel'fand-Gel'fand (or BGG) correspondence gives an equivalence between the derived categories of a polynomial ring and an exterior algebra. It was shown by Eisenbud-Fløystad-Schreyer in 2003 that the BGG correspondence admits a geometric refinement, which sends a sheaf on projective space to a complex of modules over an exterior algebra called a Tate resolution. The goal of this talk is to reinterpret Tate resolutions as noncommutative analogues of Fourier-Mukai transforms, and to discuss some applications.

Peter Wei

Title: Geometric Syzygy Conjecture in char p, with reveries from Ogus’ result on a versal deformation of K3 surfaces

Abstract: We aim to study syzygies of canonical curves in char p. I will briefly introduce how to translate the questions on curves to questions on K3 surfaces, where the Lazarsfeld-Mukai bundle plays a great role. I will show how to use Ogus’ result on a versal deformation of K3 surfaces, to help us resolve the case for a general K3 surface. And finally, I will sketch the proof of Geometric Syzygy Conjecture for even genus curve assuming an effective lower bound on the characteristics.