Main Page/Reading Seminar Deformation Theory (Summer 2025)

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

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
06/26/2025	Dima

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"