COW seminar

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The COW seminar is an Algebraic geometry seminar which is so called because it originally met in Cambridge, Oxford or Warwick. Meetings, of which there are several every term, are now also regularly held in Bath and London (Imperial College) and occasionally in other places.

The general organisers are Miles Reid at Warwick and Gregory Sankaran at Bath. Many other people help.

The COW seminar is funded by the London Mathematical Society. The funds are held at Bath. To claim your travel expenses you have to fill in a Bath travel claim form (the word COW should appear prominently) and post it to Finance Secretary, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY.


Programmes

Next meeting

Warwick, Thursday 23rd February 2012
11:00 Artem Avilov (Moscow): Cubic surface over C(t) with maximal action of Galois group on its Picard group
12:00 Kuzma Khrabrov (Moscow): Graded rings and Q-Fano threefolds with exotic Weil class group
2:00 Constantin Shramov (Moscow): Jordan property for Cremona groups of low rank
4:00 Andrey Trepalin (Moscow): On quotients of rational conic bundles
5:30 Chris Brav (Oxford): Classical and derived monodromy of a quintic threefold

The talks for this special Russian-themed COW (КОРОВА) will be at the Mathematics Institute, all in room B3.01 except for the third (14:00) talk, which will be in room B3.02.

Bar cow
Social programme
There will be tea from the Warwick University samovar before the first and fourth lectures, and lunch between the second and third. At the end of the meeting it is proposed to abandon the theme and go for a curry in Kenilworth or Coventry instead.

When a COW meeting is planned, a copy of the announcement suitable for printing and displaying on a notice board is made available. This also carries abstracts.

Future meetings

A COW is planned for Thursday 10th May, possibly also in Warwick. Other COWs may also occur.


Sources of information


Other events


Previous meetings

Historic COWs: 1995-96; 1996-97; 1997-98; 1998-99; 1999-2000; 2000-01; 2001-02; 2002-03; 2003-04; 2004-05; 2005-06; 2006-07; 2007-08; 2008-09; 2009-10; 2010-11.


The drawing of the cow at the top of this page was created by Sketch the Cow (sketch@cow.net).

We are sorry if you thought this page was going to be really about cows and were disappointed.


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