Meetings of the COW seminar in 2009-2010

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

• Oxford, Thursday 15th October 2009
  2:00 Tim Logvinenko (Liverpool): Reid's recipe and derived categories
  3:45 Gregory Sankaran (Bath): Moduli of irreducible symplectic manifolds

• Cambridge, Thursday 5th November 2009
  2:00 Tamás Hausel (Oxford): Mirror symmetry, Langlands duality and the Hitchin system
  4:00 Stéphane Lamy (Lyon): Automorphisms of non compact surfaces

• London, Thursday 3rd December 2009
  3:00 Simon Donaldson (London): Algebro-geometric aspects of the Kähler-Einstein problem
  4:15 Junmyeong Jang (Seoul): The semi-positivity theorem and the generic p-rank

• Warwick, Thursday 4th March 2010
  2:30 Alicia Dickenstein (Buenos Aires): A-discriminants
  4:30 Tom Coates (Imperial): Gromov-Witten invariants and modular forms

• Loughborough, Thursday 18th March 2010
  2:30 Ilya Karzhemanov (Edinburgh): Fano threefolds
  4:00 Balazs Szendroi (Oxford): Virtual motives of Hilbert schemes of threefolds

• Cardiff, Thursday 15th April 2010
  2:30 Sven Meinhardt (Oxford): Integrality in Donaldson-Thomas theory
  4:00 Katrin Wendland (Augsburg): TQFT and singularities from a conformal field theorist's point of view

• Cambridge, Thursday 6th May 2010
  2:30 Grigory Mikhalkin (Geneva): Tropical (p,q)-cycles
  4:30 Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk (Purdue): Resolution algorithm in characteristic zero and its possible extension to positive characteristic

• Warwick, Thursday 17th June 2010
  12.00 Yuri Prokhorov (Moscow): Fano 3-folds of large Fano index
  14:00 Alessio Corti (Imperial): Finite generation of adjoint rings
  15:30 Adrien Dubouloz (Dijon): Exotic affine spheres
  17:00 Jürgen Hausen (Tubingen): The Cox ring of an algebraic variety with torus action

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