Reading Seminar on Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry

Spring 2015

Supervisor: Kai-Wen Lan

Schedule

(Each lecture was about one hour.)

• Feb 2, Andrew Senger: Schlessinger's criterion, I
• Feb 4, Andrew Senger: Schlessinger's criterion, II
• Feb 9, Andrew Senger: Schlessinger's criterion, III
• Feb 11, Andrew Senger: Schlessinger's criterion, IV
• Feb 16, Chen Wan: Artin's approximation, I
• Feb 18, Chen Wan: Artin's approximation, II
• Feb 23, Chen Wan: Artin's approximation, III
• Feb 25, Chen Wan: Artin's approximation, IV
• Mar 2, Chen Wan: Artin's approximation, V
• Mar 4, Chen Wan: Artin's approximation, VI
• Mar 9, Chen Wan: Artin's approximation, VII
• Mar 11, Andrew Senger: Cohomology and base change
• Mar 23, Junecue Suh (guest speaker): Standard sign conjecture on algebraic cycles for Shimura varieties
• Mar 25, Junecue Suh (guest speaker): Kawamata-Viehweg type vanishing theorems with coefficients
• Mar 30, Yao Rui Yeo: Grothendieck topologies, I
• Apr 1, Yao Rui Yeo: Grothendieck topologies, II
• Apr 6, Marshall Smith: Fibered categories, I
• Apr 8, Marshall Smith: Fibered categories, II
• Apr 13, Marshall Smith: Fibered categories, III
• Apr 15, Marshall Smith: Fibered categories, IV
• Apr 20, Yao Rui Yeo: Theory of descent, I
• Apr 22, Yao Rui Yeo: Theory of descent, II
• Apr 27, Marshall Smith: Theory of descent, III
• Apr 29, Marshall Smith: Theory of descent, IV
• May 4, Andrew Senger: Introduction to Hilbert schemes, I
• May 6, Andrew Senger: Introduction to Hilbert schemes, II