Meetings of the COW seminar in 2000-2001

Details of the activities of the COW this year may be found on the COW homepage.

• Cambridge, Thursday 26th October 2000
  11:30 Serguei Barannikov (Paris): Semi-infinite variations of Hodge structures and WDVV-equations
  14:00 Serguei Barannikov (Paris): Quantum periods and mirror symmetry in higher dimensions
  15:30 Michael Thaddeus (New York): Mirror symmetry, Langlands duality and the Hitchin system
  17:00 Igor Dolgachev (Ann Arbor): Rational surfaces with many nodes

• Oxford, Thursday 2nd November 2000
  2:00 Conan Leung (Minneapolis): Mirror symmetry without corrections
  4:00 Paul Hacking (Cambridge): A compactification of the moduli space of plane curves

• London, Friday 15th December 2000
  12:00 Simon Donaldson (London): Scalar curvature and projective embeddings
  2:00 Simon Donaldson (London): Scalar curvature, convex geometry and toric varieties
  4:00 Gregory Sankaran (Bath): Abelian surfaces with bilevel structure

• Warwick, Thursday 1st February 2001
  2:00 Maria Vasquez-Gallo (Madrid): Degree of varieties of singular cubic surfaces
  4:00 Adrian Langer (Warwick): Logarithmic orbifold Euler numbers and applications

• Bath, Thursday 22nd February 2001
  2:00 V. Balaji (Madras): Semistable reduction for principal bundles
  4:00 Richard Thomas (London): Lagrangians and special Lagrangians

• COW extended activity, Cambridge, 8th-10th March 2001
  • Thursday 8th March
    3:00 Paul Hacking (Cambridge): Compactification of the moduli space of plane curves II
    4:30 Miles Reid (Warwick): Semistable flips according to Mori

  • Friday 9th March
    3:00 Jonathan Wahl (Chapel Hill): Universal Abelian coverings of surface singularities
    4:30 Roberto Pignatelli (Göttingen): Canonical linear systems with base points on surfaces

  • Saturday 10th March
    10:00 Justin Sawon (Oxford): Rozansky-Witten theory and TQFT
    11:30 Jan Stevens (Gothenburg): Deformations of Kurke-LeBrun spaces
    2:00 Jarek Wisniewski (Warsaw): The hard Lefschetz theorem and topology of contractions
    3:30 Alessio Corti (Cambridge): Weak factorization after Abramovich-Matsuki-Wlodarczyk

• Liverpool, Tuesday 15th May 2001
  2:00 Miles Reid (Warwick): K3 surfaces and Fano 3-folds
  3:30 Fabio Pioli (Trieste): Real Fourier-Mukai transforms
  5:00 Ivan Cheltsov (Liverpool): Log canonical thresholds on hypersurfaces

• COW extended activity, Warwick, 13th-15th June 2001

  • Wednesday 13th June
    2:00 Vincent Mercat (Paris): Brill-Noether theory for rank 2 bundles
    3:30 Margarida Mendes Lopes (Lisbon): The bicanonical map
    5:00 Caryn Werner (Towson): Godeaux surfaces

  • Thursday 14th June
    9:00 Frank Schreyer (Bayreuth): Resultants, Chowforms and syzygies over the exterior algebra
    10:30 Joseph Le Potier (Paris): Strange duality on surfaces
    12:00 Gentiana Danila (Warwick): On the cohomology of the tautological sheaf on the punctual Hilbert scheme of a surface (again)
    2:00 Rita Pardini (Pisa): Varieties of large Albanese dimension
    3:30 Nikos Tziolas (Warwick): Extremal terminal 3-fold divisorial contractions of a surface to a curve
    5:00 Masayuki Kawakita (Tokyo): Divisorial extractions from 3-fold Gorenstein singularities

  • Friday 15th June
    9:30 Nick Shepherd-Barron (Cambridge): Tangent lifting for deformations in mixed characteristic
    11:00 Adrian Langer (Warwick): Semistable sheaves in mixed characteristic
    1:00 Balazs Szendroi (Warwick): Artin group actions and enhanced gauge symmetry
    2:30 Alastair Craw (Warwick): GIT variants of C³/G
    4:00 Frances Kirwan (Oxford): Group valued moment maps

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