Meetings of the COW seminar in 2008-2009

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

• Oxford, Thursday 23rd October 2008
  3:00 Brent Doran (Oxford): ``Say XxA¹ = Aⁿ. Please solve for X ...'' and related questions
  4:30 Sönke Rollenske (London): Smoothing nodal Calabi-Yau n-folds

• London, Thursday 6th November 2008
  2:00 Yukinobu Toda (Tokyo): Noncommutative resolution, F-blowups and D-modules
  4:00 Matt Kerr (Durham): Algebraic K-theory and Local Mirror Symmetry

• Cambridge, Thursday 20th November 2008
  2:30 Vlad Lazic (Cambridge): On finite generation without the Minimal Model Program
  4:30 Miles Reid (Warwick): Big key varieties for surfaces with p_g = 1, K² = 2 (according to Stephen Coughlan)

• Bath, Thursday 26th February 2009
  2:30 Frances Kirwan (Oxford): Non-reductive GIT and jet differentials
  4:15 Frank Neumann (Leicester): Cohomology of moduli stacks of vector bundles on curves and Frobenius morphisms

• Warwick, Thursday 28th May 2009
  2:00 Helena Verrill (Baton Rouge): Modular forms for noncongruence subgroups
  4:00 Artie Prendergast-Smith (Cambridge): Extremal rational elliptic threefolds

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