Organisers: Ivan Cheltsov (University of Edinburgh) Alastair Craw (University of Glasgow) Abbie Halls (University of Aberdeen) Raf Bocklandt (University of Newcastle)

Edinburgh-Glasgow-Aberdeen (EGA) algebraic geometry seminar This seminar follows roughly the format of the COW seminar. We hold four meetings each year, rotating between the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle, with a Christmas meeting at ICMS in Edinburgh. We hope to attract interest from those sympathetic to algebraic geometry who are based at other institutions across Scotland and northern England. Information on the original EGA can be found here. We are supported by grants from the London Mathematical Society and the Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust. These grants cover travel and accommodation expenses of outside speakers, and it should also provide partial support for the travel expenses of young participants of the EGA (meaning those not holding a permanent job in the UK).

Meetings that took place this academic year:

• Newcastle, Wednesday June 6th, 2012, Herschel building floor 4 Teaching Room 3

  13.30 David Favero (Vienna): Variation of Geometric Invariant Theory and Derived Categories (abstract)
  14.30 Moty Katzman (Sheffield): Test Ideals and Singularities (abstract)
  16.00 Sefi Ladkani (Bonn): Mutation classes of quivers with constant number of arrows and derived equivalences (abstract)
  17.00 Kazishi Ueda (Osaka City): Strange duality and mirror symmetry for K3 surfaces (abstract)
  

• Glasgow, Thursday 22nd March, 2012 in room 516

  2.30pm Osamu Iyama (Nagoya): Stable categories of Cohen-Macaulay modules and cluster categories
  4.00pm Christian Korff (Glasgow): Cylindric MacDonald functions and a q-deformed Verlinde algebra
  

• ICMS in Edinburgh, 6-7th December 2011
  • Tuesday 6th December:
    9.30am-10.30am Gregory Sankaran (Bath): Moduli of irreducible symplectic varieties: O'Grady's 10-dimensional case (abstract)
    11.00am-12.00pm Raf Bocklandt (Newcastle): Noncommutative mirror symmetry for punctured surfaces (abstract)
    1.30pm-2.30pm Ciaran Meachan (Edinburgh): Moduli of Bridgeland-stable objects (abstract)
    2.45pm-3.45pm Konstanze Rietsch (King's College London): On mirror symmetry for Grassmannians (abstract)
    4.15pm-5.15pm Alvaro Nolla de Celis (Nagoya): G-Hilb vs. G/N-Hilb(N-Hilb) (abstract)

  • Wednesday 7th December:
    9.30am-10.30am Yu Qiu (Bath): Stability space for higher cluster categories of Dynkin type (abstract)
    11.00am-12.00pm Al Kasprzyk (Imperial): Generalised reflexive polygons and the number 12 (abstract)
    1.30pm-2.30pm Chris Brav (Oxford): Ping-pong, exceptional collections, and (derived) monodromy groups (abstract)

• Edinburgh, Thursday 27th October 2011

  4.10pm Costya Shramov (Moscow): Weakly exceptional singularities in higher dimensions
  5.10pm Diane Maclagan (Warwick): Tropical bounds on effective cones
  6.10pm Will Donovan (Edinburgh): Spherical twists and brane transport

Meetings from previous years: 2007-08; 2008-09; 2009-10; 2010-11.