Meetings of the COW seminar in 2006-2007

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

• Cambridge, Thursday 19th October 2006
  2:00 Nikita Markaryan (Sheffield): Monoidal categories and WDVV equation
  3:45 Caucher Birkar (Cambridge): Recent progress in the minimal model program
  5:00 Alexey Bondal (Moscow): Coherent versus constructible sheaves: toric case
  

• Warwick, Thursday 9th November 2006
  1:30 Alastair King (Bath): Dimers and non-commutative resolutions: an introduction
  3:30 Alexei Skorobogatov (Imperial): Del Pezzo surfaces and representation theory
  5:00 Gavin Brown (Kent): Graded rings over Sarkisov links
  

• London, Thursday 23rd November 2006
  2:00 Diane Maclagan (Rutgers): Equations and degenerations of M_0,n
  3.30 Hiroshi Iritani (Kyushu): The wall-crossing of orbifold quantum cohomology of toric varieties
  5:00 Ravi Vakil (Stanford): Murphy's Law in algebraic geometry: badly-behaved moduli spaces
  

• Oxford, Thursday 15th February 2007
  2:15 Nick Shepherd-Barron (Cambridge): Computing the Torelli map for curves
  4.00 Raphael Rouquier (Oxford): Birational invariants and non-commutative geometry
  

• London, Friday 30th March 2007
  1:30 David Eisenbud (Berkeley): Fibers of a generic projection and asymptotic regularity
  2.45 Gregory Sankaran (Bath): Locally symmetric varieties of orthogonal type
  

• Algebraic geometry weekend at Warwick 18th-19th May
  • Friday 18th May
    12:00 Michael Wemyss (Bristol): Noncommutative special McKay correspondence
    2:00 Alastair King (Bath): Superpotential algebras
    3:10 Miles Reid (Warwick): Diptych varieties
  • Saturday 19th May
    9:30 Cristina Lopez (Salamanca): Vector bundles on smooth elliptic curves
    11:00 Elisa Tenni (Pavia): Genus 5 fibrations
    12:00 Lei Zhu (Shanghai): Canonical 3-folds

• Loughborough, Tuesday 25th September 2007
  15:30 Gavin Brown (Kent): Diptych varieties and Mori flips
  17:00 Joseph Landsberg: (Texas A&M): Rigidity of homogeneous varieties
  18:00 Ivan Cheltsov (Edinburgh): Birational automorphisms and Arnold multiplicity

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