Meetings of the COW seminar in 2004-2005

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

• Warwick, Thursday 14th October 2004
  2:00 Richard Thomas (London): Stability of algebraic varieties
  3:30 Nick Shepherd-Barron (Cambridge): Canonical model of moduli of abelian varieties
  5:00 Miles Reid (Warwick): A 3-torsion element of the Brauer group of K(P²)

• Cambridge, Thursday 4th November 2004
  2:00 Dominic Joyce (Oxford): Abelian categories and stability conditions
  3:30 Aravind Asok (Oxford): Equivariant vector bundles on certain G-varieties

• Bath, Thursday 18th November 2004
  11:15 Gavin Brown (Warwick): Introduction to MAGMA
  14:30 Alastair King (Bath): Moduli of sheaves from moduli of Kronecker modules
  16:00 Alessio Corti (Cambridge): Saturated mobile b-divisors on Del Pezzo surfaces

• London, Thursday 9th December 2004
  1:30 Simon Donaldson (Imperial): The Mabuchi functional and numerical methods in complex differential geometry
  3:30 Balázs Szendroi (Utrecht): D-branes on threefolds and quiver sheaves

• Oxford, Thursday 3rd February 2005
  3:00 Misha Verbitsky (Moscow): Kodaira theorem for non-Kähler complex manifolds
  5:00 Mark Haskins (Johns Hopkins): Isolated singularities of special Lagrangians

• Warwick, Thursday 3rd March 2005
  2:00 Nikolai Tyurin (Bonn): Geometric quantization and algebraic Lagrangian geometry
  3:30 Tom Bridgeland (Sheffield): Derived categories and Frobenius manifolds
  5:00 Ivan Cheltsov (Edinburgh): Local inequalities and birational rigidity of higher-dimensional varieties

• Liverpool, 7th-8th April 2005
  • Thursday 7th April
    3:00 Brent Doran (Oxford): Cohomology of quotients
    4:30 Alessandro Verra (Rome): On the generic finiteness of the theta map of SU(r,O)
  • Friday 8th April
    10:00 Barbara Fantechi (Trieste): On self-dual obstruction theories
    11:30 Aleksandr Pukhlikov (Liverpool): Birationally rigid varieties
    2:00 Concettina Galati (Rome): Number of moduli of families of plane curves with nodes and cusps
    3:30 Peter Newstead (Liverpool): Coherent systems on algebraic curves

• Cambridge, Thursday 28th April 2005

  2:00 Askold Khovanskii (Toronto): Toric geometry and Parshin symbols
  3:30 Kazuhiro Fujiwara (Nagoya): Contracting morphisms in rigid analytic geometry

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