Graduate Student/Post-doc Working geometry seminar

Thursdays, 2-3:30pm Milner 317
organized by J.M. Landsberg

Spring 09
Topic I: Lie algebra cohomology and BGG sequences
1/24  C. Robles
1/31  Y. Qi
2/5    C. Robles
2/12  M. Yang
2/19 C. Robles



Topic II: Varieties in spaces of tensors
2/26 L. Oeding - Ottaviani's eqns
3/5 L. Oeding - Ottaviani's eqns II
3/12 JM Landsberg- Weyman's method I
3/19 spring break
3/26 JM Landsberg-Weyman's method II
4/2 Jarek B. on QK (part of regular working geometry seminar)
4/9 JM Landsberg- Weyman's method III
4/16 Ada Boralevi - Weyman's method IV
4/23 no meeting (Lawson lecture)
4/30 TBA
5/7 TBA




Fall 09
Topic I: Chapter 5 of Cartan for beginners
August 27: D. The, 5.1-5.3
Sept. 3, M. Yang, 5.4
Sept. 10, D. The, 5.5
Sept. 17: various worked examples

Topic II:  Additivity for secant varieties
Sept.  24,   K. Ye
Oct. 1, K. Ye cont'd.

Topic III: EDS and Lie algebra cohomology
Oct  8. D. The
Oct. 15, D. The
Oct. 22, D. The

Topic IV: rpp and brpp
speakers:  J.M. Landsberg, J. Buczinski, Y. Ke,
other talks:
L. Oeding (The Salmon Prize Problem)
Y. Qi (Folding Dynkin diagrams)