University of Southern California, Department of Mathematics

Algebra Seminar

Spring 2009








Algebra Seminars will typically be held on Monday afternoons at 3:30 in room 337 of DRB. The talks will be preceded by the Departmental Tea at 3:00 in the math center.


Date Speaker
 Title
 Time/Location
2/23
 Pham Tiep
(Univ. of Arizona)
 Low dimensional representations of finite simple groups and a conjecture of Katz, Kollar, and Larsen
3:30-4:30

DRB 337
3/9
 Apoorva Khare
(UCR)
 Infinitesimal Hecke algebras
3:30-4:30

DRB 337
3/23
 Paul Smith
(Univ. Washington)
 The Grothendieck and Picard groups of a complete toric DM stack
 3:30-4:30

DRB 337
3/30
()
 TBA
3:30-4:30

DRB 337
4/6
()
 TBA
3:30-4:30

DRB 337
4/13
()
 TBA
3:30-4:30

DRB 337
4/20
 Burt Tataro
(Cambridge, MSRI)
 Algebraic surfaces and hyperbolic geometry
3:30-4:30

DRB 337
4/27
()
 TBA
 3:30-4:30

DRB 337