Reading seminar in algebraic geometry.


The reading seminar in algebraic geometry consists of talks by faculty followed by talks by graduate students and meets weekly at UMass during the semester. We attempt to make the seminar accessible to everyone. Please follow the link above for the current semester's schedule.




Links to the seminar from previous semesters.

Examples in algebraic geometry, Spring 2025.
Calabi--Yau 3-folds, Fall 2024.
K3 surfaces and mirror symmetry for Fano manifolds, Spring 2024.
Surface singularities, Fall 2023.
Topics in algebraic geometry, Spring 2023
Mirror symmetry, Fall 2022
Birational geometry and the minimal model program, Spring 2022
Fano varieties, Fall 2021
Mirror symmetry, Spring 2020
K3 surfaces, Fall 2019
The minimal model program, Spring 2019
Non-commutative K3 surfaces, Fall 2018
Topics in algebraic geometry, Spring 2018
Surface singularities, Fall 2017
Birational geometry, Spring 2017.
Algebraic surfaces, Fall 2016.
Fano varieties, Fall 2015
The Hitchin system, character varieties, and related topics, Spring 2015
Holomorphic symplectic varieties and Hyperkahler manifolds, Fall 2014
Syzygies, Spring 2014
Toric varieties, Fall 2013
Derived categories in algebraic geometry, Spring 2013
Deformation theory, Fall 2012
Curves, K3 surfaces, and Fano 3-folds, Spring 2012
Topics in algebraic geometry, Fall 2011
Surfaces of general type, Spring 2011
Algebraic surfaces, Fall 2010.
Stability conditions on derived categories and wall crossing, Spring 2010
Mirror symmetry and tropical geometry, Fall 2009
Deformation theory, Fall 2008
Green's Conjectures, Spring 2008
Bridgeland Stability, Fall 2007.
Minimal Model Program, Spring 2007
Commutative Algebra and Polyhedra Seminar, Spring 2006.
Geometry and Algebra of Polyhedra Seminar, Fall 2005.
Commutative Algebra Seminar, 2004-2005



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