Stanford Algebraic Methods Seminar Spring 2004

Mondays 3:15-4:05 in 383N (SUBJECT TO CHANGE!)

Click on the title to see the abstract (if available). For more information, or to volunteer to speak please contact Diane Maclagan (maclagan@math.stanford.edu)

Schedule of talks:

March 29 Charles Doran (Columbia/Washington) Integral structure, toric geometry, and homological mirror symmetry
April 5 Michael Shapiro (MSU/MSRI) Hurwitz numbers and moduli spaces
April 12 No seminar.  
April 19 Jason Starr (MIT) Rational points of varieties defined over the function field of a surface
April 26 Sergei Ovchinnikov (SFSU) The Lattice Dimension of a Graph
May 3 Frank Sottile (ClayMI/MSRI) Lower bounds for real polynomial systems from sign-imbalanced posets
May 10 TBA (previous speaker cancelled).  
May 17 Serkan Hosten (SFSU) The Maximum Likelihood Degree
May 24 Kristian Ranestad (Oslo/MSRI) Veronese surfaces and line arrangements
May 31 Memorial Day  

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