Algebraic Geometry Seminar Fall 2015

The seminar meets on Fridays at 2:25 pm in Van Vleck B135.

The schedule for the previous semester is here.

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Fall 2015 Schedule

date	speaker	title	host(s)
September 18	Eric Riedl (UIC)	TBA	Jordan
September 25	David Zureick-Brown (Emory)	TBA	Jordan
October 2	Vasily Dolgushev (Temple)	A manifestation of the Grothendieck-Teichmueller group in geometry	Andrei
October 9	Laurentiu Maxim (Madison)	TBA	local
October 23	Jesse Kass (South Carolina)	How to count zeros arithmetically?	Melanie
November 13	Jake Levinson (Michigan)	TBA	Daniel

Abstracts

Jess Kass

How to count zeros arithmetically?

A celebrated result of Eisenbud--Kimshaishvili--Levine computes the local Brouwer degree of a real polynomial function at an isolated zero as the signature of a quadratic form. I will discuss a parallel result in A1-homotopy theory, and time permitting, explain how to study a singularity by applying these results to the gradient of a defining equation. This is joint work with Kirsten Wickelgren.

Vasily Dolgushev

A manifestation of the Grothendieck-Teichmueller group in geometry

Inspired by Grothendieck’s lego-game, Vladimir Drinfeld introduced, in 1990, the Grothendieck-Teichmueller group GRT. This group has interesting links to the absolute Galois group of rationals, moduli of algebraic curves, solutions of the Kashiwara-Vergne problem, and theory of motives. My talk will be devoted to the manifestation of GRT in the extended moduli of algebraic varieties, which was conjectured by Maxim Kontsevich in 1999. My talk is partially based on the joint paper with Chris Rogers and Thomas Willwacher: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4230.