Meetings of the COW seminar in 1998-99

• Cambridge, Thursday 22nd October 1998
  2:30 Jonathan Fine (Cambridge): Ring structure, uniform expressions and intersection homology
  4:30 Nick Shepherd-Barron (Cambridge): Simple algebraic groups and simple singularities
  

• COW seminar weekend, Bath, 6th-8th November 1998

  • Friday 6th November
    3:30 Alastair Craw (Warwick): An introduction to motivic integration
    4:45 Victor Pidstrigach (Warwick): Various Seiberg-Witten moduli spaces and ADHM construction

  • Saturday 7th November
    10:00 Bert van Geemen (Pavia): Recent results on rank two bundles on curves
    11:30 Klaus Hulek (Hannover): The modular form of the Barth-Nieto quintic
    2:00 Alessio Corti (Cambridge): 3-fold Mori fibrations: a framework for classification
    4:00 Helena Verrill (Bonn): The L-series of some Calabi-Yau 3-folds

  • Sunday 8th November
    10:00 Tom Bridgeland (Edinburgh): Fourier-Mukai transforms for complex surfaces
    11:30 Kevin Buzzard (London): Introduction to p-adic modular forms
    

• Oxford, Thursday 26th November 1998
  2:00 Michael Fryers (Cambridge): Calabi-Yau threefolds from the Horrocks-Mumford bundle
  4:15 Nigel Hitchin (Oxford): Quartic curves, Fano threefolds and the icosahedron
  

• London, Thursday 3rd December 1998
  12:00 Simon Donaldson (London): Is every unstable variety ruled?
  1:45 Alexei Skorobogatov (London): Elliptic surfaces over number fields
  

• Warwick, Thursday 21st January 1999
  2:00 Burt Totaro (Cambridge): Chern numbers of singular varieties, and elliptic cohomology
  4:00 Vin de Silva (Oxford): Holomorphic discs and the real Bott periodicity theorem

• Cambridge, Thursday 4th February 1999
  2:00 Alyosha Gorodentsev (Moscow): Helices and computations related to QFT and arithmetic problems
  4:00 Chuck Doran (Harvard): Modularity of the Mirror Map and Mirror-Moonshine

• London, Thursday 4th March 1999
  2:00 Richard Thomas (Oxford): Mirror symmetry
  3:30 Massimiliano Mella (Cambridge): On the birational geometry of quartic 3-folds

• COW seminar weekend, Warwick, 26th-28th March 1999

  • Friday 26th March
    3:00 Bill Oxbury (Durham): Triality and trigonality
    4:15 Mark Gross (Warwick): Conjectural compactification of special Lagrangian fibrations

  • Saturday 27th March
    10:00 Tom Bridgeland (Edinburgh): Mukai implies McKay
    11:15 Rita Pardini (Pisa): Canonical triple covers
    12:00 Dmitri Rumynin (Warwick): Kleinian singularities and subregular representations
    2:00 Simon Donaldson (London): Monodromy, holomorphic Floer theory and curves in Calabi-Yau 3-folds
    4:00 Kristian Ranestad (Oslo): Varieties of sums of powers of cubic fourfolds

  • Sunday 28th March
    10:00 Miles Reid (Warwick): The McKay correspondence: different approaches and open problems
    11:30 Andrei Tyurin (Moscow): Geometric quantisation in alg geom and mirror symmetry

• Special COW, Oxford, 14th-15th June 1999

  • Monday 14th June
    2.15 S. Ramanan (Bombay): The Schottky locus and vector bundles
    3.45 Rita Pardini (Pisa): Canonical double surfaces and fibres of the Prym map
    5.00 Ross Geoghegan (New York): SL(2) actions on the hyperbolic plane

  • Tuesday 15th June
    11.30 Claire Voisin (Paris): The Griffiths group of a general Calabi-Yau threefold
    2.15 Cecilia Trifolgi (Oxford): Focal varieties
    3.45 Emilia Mezzetti (Trieste): On threefolds covered by lines

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