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Seminars for Pure Mathematics


Aug 27 2024
General (FSU)
Organizational meeting
Geometry and Topology Seminar
Time: 3:05
Location: 301
We'll gather speakers and schedules information for our seminar this Fall. All are invited.

Information will be updated here: https://sites.google.com/view/fsu-gt-seminar
 
Aug 29 2024
Jeremy Usatine (FSU)
Crepant resolutions via stacks
Algebra seminar
Time: 3:05
Location: LOV 301
Consider an invariant that behaves nicely for smooth varieties, such as Euler number, Betti numbers, or Hodge numbers. Suppose we want a version of this invariant for singular varieties that sees inte... More
 
Sep 5 2024
Matthew Winters (FSU)
Rational torsion and reducibility for abelian varieties associated to newforms
Algebra seminar
Time: 3:05PM
Location: LOV 301
Let f be a newform and A its associated abelian variety. We have shown before that for certain primes r, if A is an optimal semistable elliptic curve with reducible torsion subgroup A[r], then A has r... More
 
Sep 12 2024
Benson Farb (University of Chicago)
3-dimensional hypersurfaces and intermediate Jacobians
Algebra seminar
Time: 3:05
Location: Zoom
Clemens-Griffiths discovered in 1971 a surprising connection

between two questions (all terms will be defined in the talk)



1. When is a 3-dimensional hypersurface rational (i.e. ... More
 
Sep 19 2024
Soumya Sankar (Utrecht University)
Relations between Frobenius eigenvalues of abelian varieties over finite fields
Algebra seminar
Time: 3:05
Location: Zoom
Elliptic curves over a finite field F_q come in two flavours: ordinary and supersingular. As q varies over powers of a fixed prime p, the eigenvalues of Frobenius of an ordinary elliptic curve are uni... More
 
Oct 10 2024
Akash Sengupta (University of Waterloo)
Uniform bounds on Sylvester-Gallai type configurations of polynomials
Algebra seminar
Time: 3:05 PM
Location: Zoom
The classical Sylvester-Gallai theorem says that if a finite set of points in the Euclidean plane has the property that the line joining any two points contains a third point from the set, then all th... More
 
Oct 17 2024
Pedro Souza (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt)
On the topology of the moduli space of tropical Z/pZ-covers
Algebra seminar
Time: 3:05PM
Location: Zoom
We study the topology of the moduli space of (unramified)

Z/pZ-covers of tropical curves of genus g≥2 where p is a prime number. By recent work of Chan-Galatius-Payne, the (reduced) homology ... More
 
Oct 24 2024
Matteo Costantini (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
Spaces of flat surfaces
Algebra seminar
Time:
No location for this even specified.
A non-zero holomorphic one form on a Riemann surface endows it with a flat metric with conical singularities. Such an object is called flat surface.

While spaces of flat surfaces with fixed typ... More
 
Oct 28 2024
Hung-Chun Yu (FSU)
An Introduction to Algebraic K-Theory
Candidacy Exam
Time: 1pm
Location: 204A
 
Oct 31 2024
Priyankur Chaudhuri (University of Milan)
Algebraically integrable foliations and canonical bundle formula
Algebra seminar
Time: 3:05PM
Location: Zoom
Situations in which the canonical divisor of a smooth projective variety is the pullback of a divisor on a lower dimensional variety, are quite commonplace in higher dimensional algebraic geometry. In... More
 
Nov 5 2024
Sam Ballas (FSU)
Classical and Exotic Dehn Filling
Geometry and Topology
Time: 3:05
Location: 301
Dehn filling is a topological operation where one starts with a 3-manifold, M, with torus boundary and builds a closed manifold by gluing a solid torus to it along their respective boundaries. There a... More
 
Nov 7 2024
Ishan Banerjee (Ohio State University)
Monodromy and vanishing cycles for curves in an algebraic surface
Algebra Seminar
Time: 3:05
Location: LOV 301
This talk will be about the monodromy group associated to a family of algebraic curves in an algebraic surface as a subgroup of the mapping class group. I will start by surveying some older results in... More
 
Nov 12 2024
Brandon Doherty (FSU)
Comparison of cubical sets with and without symmetries
Geometry and Topology Seminar
Time: 3:05
Location: 301
We discuss an adjoint triple of functors which defines a comparison between categories of cubical sets on which model structures for (infinity,1)-categories have been established, and cubical sets hav... More
 
Nov 14 2024
Phil Tosteson (UNC Chapel Hill)
Homology of spaces of curves on blowups
Algebra seminar
Time: 3:05PM
Location: 301
Let C be a smooth projective curve and X be a smooth projective variety. We will consider the space of degree d algebraic maps from C to X. When X is a projective space, Segal discovered an inter... More
 
Nov 21 2024
Christin Bibby (Louisiana State University)
Supersolvable posets and fiber-type arrangements
Algebra seminar
Time: 3:05PM
Location: 301
We present a combinatorial analysis of fiber bundles of generalized configuration spaces on connected abelian Lie groups. These bundles are akin to those of Fadell--Neuwirth for configuration spaces, ... More