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Revision as of 20:01, 27 October 2023

When: 4:30-5:30 PM on Wednesday.

Where: Van Vleck B119

Toby the OFFICIAL mascot of GAGS!!

Who: All undergraduate and graduate students interested in algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, and related fields are welcome to attend.

Why: The purpose of this seminar is to learn algebraic geometry and commutative algebra by giving and listening to talks in a informal setting. Sometimes people present an interesting paper they find. Other times people give a prep talk for the Algebraic Geometry Seminar. Other times people give a series of talks on a topic they have been studying in-depth. Regardless the goal of GAGS is to provide a supportive and inclusive place for all to learn more about algebraic geometry and commutative algebra.

How: If you want to get emails regarding time, place, and talk topics (which are often assigned quite last minute) add yourself to the gags mailing list: gags@g-groups.wisc.edu by sending an email to gags+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu. If you prefer (and are logged in under your wisc google account) the list registration page is here.

Organizers: John Cobb, Yu (Joey) Luo

Give a talk!

We need volunteers to give talks this semester. Beginning graduate students are particularly encouraged to give a talk, since it's a great way to get your feet wet with the material. If you would like some talk ideas, see the list on the main page. Sign up here.

Wishlist

This was assembled using input from an interest form at the beginning of the semester. Choose one and you will have the rare guarantee of having one interested audience member. Feel free to add your own.

  • Hilbert Schemes
  • Geothendieck '66, "On the de Rham Cohomology of Algebraic Varieties"
  • A History of the Weil Conjectures
  • A pre talk for any other upcoming talk
  • Weil Conjectures, GAGA theorems, surfaces of general type, moduli spaces, moduli of curves, mixed characteristics (stuff), elliptic curves, abelian varieties, hyperelliptic curves, resolution of singularities, minimal model program (stuff).

Being an audience member

The goal of GAGS is to create a safe and comfortable space inclusive of all who wish to expand their knowledge of algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. In order to promote such an environment in addition to the standard expectations of respect/kindness all participants are asked to following the following guidelines:

  • Do Not Speak For/Over the Speaker
  • Ask Questions Appropriately

Talks

Date Speaker Title Abstract
September 13 Peter Wei Introduction to the Cartier Isomorphism (Pretalk) This is a preparatory talk for Josh Mundinger's talk on Friday. We discuss the Cartier isomorphism.
September 20
September 27 Yifan Wei p-torsions in the p-adic land and de Rham cohomology Following Tate, we will try to visualize an elliptic curve over Cp, specifically, the p-adic disk near identity. Logarithm in the p-adic land provides a nice linearization to the problem, and we'll explore what this all means. If time permits, I'll sketch the proof of Hodge-Tate decomposition. (You know something like this is coming.)
October 4 Owen Goff TBA TBA
October 11 TBA TBA TBA
October 18 Alex Hof Why Does Normalization Resolve Singularities in Codimension 1? We review the definition of the normalization of an algebraic variety, discuss the geometric intuition for it, and explain why normalizing removes codimension-1 singularities. This talk is intended to be accessible to people taking first-semester algebraic geometry.
October 25 Jack Messina Variations of Hodge Structure and Hodge Modules This talk aims to introduce Hodge modules. We will start with the classical variation of Hodge structure, and then cover some background on perverse sheaves and D-modules. From here, we can introduce pure Hodge modules. We end by mentioning mixed Hodge modules and the Saito vanishing theorem.
November 1 Yiyu Wang
November 8 Ivan Aidun What is ... a Divisor? An elementary talk aimed at exploring the geometric and algebraic intuition for divisors, line bundles, and how they get used in Algebraic Geoemtry.
November 15 Peter Wei (or Joey) Pretalk for Purnaprajna Bangere's talk
November 22 Alex Mine
November 29 Yanbo Chen TBA TBA
December 9 Kevin Dao What is ... sheaf cohomology? A pragmatic approach to cohomology in algebraic geometry. Many examples will be covered and the language of divisors will be used.
December 13

Past Semesters

Spring 2023

Fall 2022 Spring 2022

Fall 2021 Spring 2021

Fall 2020 Spring 2020

Fall 2019 Spring 2019

Fall 2018 Spring 2018

Fall 2017 Spring 2017

Fall 2016 Spring 2016

Fall 2015