Program

  • The titles of the talks are linked to their respective abstracts.
  • All talks will take place at BLOCKER 158,
    and the registration and refreshments will be in BLOCKER 165.

    • Thursday, May 18
      8:30 - 9:30  Registration
      9:30 - 10:30  F. Voloch Curves with many rational points
     Coffee  
     11:00 - 12:00  R. Hain

     

    On the action of the absolute Galois group on the fundamental
    group of the thrice punctured projective line.

     Lunch  
     1:45 - 2:45  S. Keel Towards the ample cone of the moduli space of curves
     3:00 - 4:00   M. Kim Crystalline representations and Neron models
     Coffee  
     4:30 - 5:30  D. Bayer Toric syzygies and graph colorings

     

     

    Friday, May 19
      9:00 - 10:00  A. Silverberg Ranks of elliptic curves in families of quadratic twists
     Coffee  
     10:30 - 11:30  M. Stillman The toric Hilbert scheme
     Lunch  
     1:15 - 2:15  D. Edidin Good representations and solvable groups
     2:30 - 3:30  R. Miranda Linear Systems of Plane Curves
     Coffee  
     4:00 - 5:00  D. Eisenbud Chow Forms and Other Wonders via Exterior Algebra

     

     

    Saturday, May 20
      9:00 - 10:00  S. Kovács Arakelov-Parshin boundedness
      Coffee  
     10:30 - 11:30  M. Kapranov Eisenstein series for Kac-Moody groups and S-duality
      Lunch  
     1:15 - 2:15 J. W. Hoffman Topology of Siegel Modular Varieties
     2:30 - 3:30  H. Schenck Bundles on P^2 related to line arrangements
      Coffee  
     4:00 - 5:00  B. Sturmfels Rational Hypergeometric Functions