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

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

There is a Durham Symposium on birational geometry from Monday 2nd to Saturday 7th July 2012.

At Warwick, there will be a school on derived categories and physics, Monday 9th to Saturday 14th July 2012.

The EGA seminar, or Highland Cow, is a Scottish version of the COW, meeting in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
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

London, Thursday 13th October 2011
2:00 Margarida Mendes Lopes (Lisbon): Curves on irregular surfaces
3:30 Florian Block (Warwick): Universal polynomials for Severi degrees of toric surfaces
Oxford, Thursday 1st December 2011
1:30 Sara Pasquetti (London): Topological strings and dualities from M5 branes
3:00 Kobi Kremnizer (Oxford): Uniformizing Bun(G) by the affine Grassmannian
4:30 Al Kasprzyk (London): Generalised reflexive polygons and the number 12
London, Thursday 26th January 2012
2:00 Nikolai Tyurin (Dubna): Exotic Chekanov tori in toric symplectic varieties
3:45 Miles Reid (Warwick): Structure theory for Gorenstein codimension 4

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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