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.

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

London, Thursday 3rd December 2009
3:00 Simon Donaldson (London): Algebro-geometric aspects of the Kähler-Einstein problem
4:15 Junmyeong Jang (Seoul): The semi-positivity theorem and the generic p-rank

The lectures will be in Room 342 of the Huxley Building at Imperial College.
Bar cow
Social programme
The COW usually continues in a local pub.

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

We might have one more meeting before Christmas, but more likely the next one will be in the new year.

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.
Please also add your data to the European address book maintained by the erstwhile European network EAGER. There are instructions at the site. EAGER also runs a useful electronic mailing list (separate from the address book) called eager-gen, which you may wish to join.
The web site of the old European network EAGER is still active. It is called EUCLID, and carries much other useful information about European algebraic geometry.
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 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

Oxford, Thursday 15th October 2009
2:00 Tim Logvinenko (Liverpool): Reid's recipe and derived categories
3:45 Gregory Sankaran (Bath): Moduli of irreducible symplectic manifolds
Cambridge, Thursday 5th November 2009
2:00 Tamás Hausel (Oxford): Mirror symmetry, Langlands duality and the Hitchin system
4:00 Stéphane Lamy (Lyon): Automorphisms of non compact surfaces

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.

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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