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

Cardiff, Friday 15th March 2013
2:00 Ali Craw (Bath): Geometric Reid's recipe for dimer models
3:30 Ed Segal (London): Mixed braid group actions from B-brane monodromy
5:00 Jeff Giansiracusa (Swansea): Scheme-theoretic tropical geometry

The talks will all be in Room M/0.40 of the School of Mathematics of Cardiff University.
Bar cow
Social programme
The preferred pub in Cardiff is Y Mochyn Du next to Sophia Gardens cricket ground.

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

Nothing further is planned just yet.

Sources of information

Details of COW activities are usually circulated by e-mail. UK mathematicians, including research students, interested in algebraic geometry in the wide sense may (and probably should) subscribe to the mailing lists. To do so, you go to
http://listserv.csv.warwick.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/cowalggeom
and follow the instructions there.
The erstwhile European algebraic geometry network EAGER still exists in the form of a useful electronic mailing list called eager-gen, which you may wish to join.
The London topology and geometry seminar also runs a mailing list. To join it, email "subscribe" to geometry-request@ic.ac.uk.
A vital resource for all geometers is the e-print server arXiv. For algebraic geometry math.AG is the most important category but some other categories are also relevant.

Other events

The northern equivalent of COW is GLEN, which meets in Glasgow, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Newcastle.
A more local but even less specific seminar is the London Topology and Geometry Seminar, also known as G&T.
The calf is a seminar organised by and for graduate students in geometry.

Previous meetings

Oxford, Thursday 11th October 2012
12:00 Dmitry Kaledin (Moscow): Hochschild-Witt complex
2:00 Alexander Kuznetsov (Moscow): Categorical resolutions of singularities
4:00 Tom Bridgeland (Oxford): Quadratic differentials as stability conditions
Bath, Thursday 15th November 2012
2:30 Jørgen Vold Rennemo (London): Curve counting and integrals on the Hilbert scheme of points
4:15 Mingmin Shen (Cambridge): Surface with involution and Prym constructions

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; 2011-12.

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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