Meetings of the COW seminar in 2005-2006

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

• Oxford, Thursday 20th October 2005
  2:30 Andrew Kresch (Warwick): Quantum cohomology of isotropic Grassmannians
  5:10 Samir Siksek (Warwick): Classical and modular approaches to exponential Diophantine problems

• Bath, Thursday 17th November 2005
  2:15 Claire Voisin (Paris): On a construction of Kuga and Satake
  3:30 Dan Popovici (Warwick): Singular Morse Inequalities with Multiplier Ideal Sheaves
  4:45 Everett Howe (San Diego): Genus-2 curves and twists of Dieudonné modules

• Warwick, Thursday 1st December 2005
  2:00 Dmitri Panov (Imperial): Polyhedral Kaehler manifolds
  3:30 Frank Sottile (Texas A&M): The Horn recursion in the Schubert calculus

• London, Thursday 16th February 2006
  12:00 Dimitri Zvonkine (Paris): Moduli of r-spin structures and ramified coverings of the sphere
  2:00 Klaus Hulek (Hannover): Geometry and arithmetic of cubic fourfolds
  4:00 Gregory Sankaran (Bath): Modular forms and moduli of K3 surfaces

• Oxford, Thursday 2nd March 2006
  2:00 Burt Totaro (Cambridge): Nef but not semi-ample line bundles over finite fields
  3.45 Balazs Szendroi (Oxford): Approaches to the topological partition function of some local Calabi-Yau threefolds

• Oxford, Thursday 8th May 2006
  1:30 Andrei Yafaev (UC London): On the André-Oort conjecture
  3:00 Gavril Farkas (Austin): Exceptional divisors on moduli spaces
  4:30 Caucher Birkar (Cambridge): Minimal log discrepancies versus everything else

• Warwick, Tuesday 11th July 2006
  11:00 Miles Reid (Warwick): Ice cream and Dedekind sums
  12:00 Slava Nikulin (Liverpool): Correspondences of K3 surfaces via moduli of sheaves
  2:00 Nam-Hoon Lee (Seoul): Tyurin constructions of Calabi-Yau 3-folds
  3:30 Nikolai Tyurin (Dubna): The Maslov class of Lagrangian submanifolds (in some cases when it can be defined)
  5:00 Victor Batyrev (Tübingen), Constructing new Calabi-Yau 3-folds and their mirrors via conifold transitions

• Oxford, Wednesday 27 September 2006
  
  Spitalfields Day: Aspects of geometry
  Organised by the London Mathematical Society in association with the COW Algebraic Geometry Seminar.
  
  2:00 David Mumford (Brown): Metrics on the space of simple closed plane curves
  3.45 Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley): Tropical Implicitization

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