Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Mathem.-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät II
Institut für Mathematik
Sommersemester 2012
Das Forschungsseminar findet mittwochs in der Zeit von 15.00 - 17.00 Uhr in der Rudower Chaussee 25, 12489 Berlin-Adlershof, Raum 2.009 (Haus 2, Erdgeschoss), statt.
Seminar: Algebraic Geometry an der FU
| 11.04.2012 | kein Seminar |
| 18.04.2012 | Balazs Szendroi (Oxford) |
| Nekrasov's formula and refined sheaf counting | |
| Abstract: I revisit the identification of Nekrasov's K-theoretic partition function, counting instantons on R4, and the (refined) Donaldson-Thomas partition function of the associated local Calabi-Yau threefold. The main example will be the case of the resolved conifold, corresponding to the gauge group U(1). I will show how recent mathematical results about refined DT theory confirm this identification, and speculate on how one could lift the equality of partition functions to an isomorphism of vector spaces. | |
| 25.04.2012 | Yuri Tschinkel (New York University) |
| Almost abelian anabelian geometry | |
| Beginn: 15.00 Uhr | |
| Carel Faber (KTH Stockholm) | |
| Detecting and constructing Teichmüller modular forms | |
| Abstract: A classical Teichmüller modular form is a section on the moduli space Mg of a power of the determinant of the Hodge bundle. Vector-valued Teichmüller modular forms are sections on Mg of the vector bundles obtained by applying Schur functors for irreducible representations of GL(g) to the Hodge bundle. Siegel modular forms, sections on Ag of the corresponding bundles, give Teichmüller modular forms via pull-back to Mg, but for g at least 3 there exist ‘genuine’ Teichmüller modular forms, not obtained via pull-back. Classical Teichmüller modular forms have been studied in detail by Ichikawa. I will try to explain how we have found, in a rather roundabout way, strong indications for the existence of genuine Teichmüller modular forms, in four cases. If time permits, I will discuss how a natural construction appears to produce many Teichmüller modular forms. The construction covers in particular the four cases mentioned. This is work in progress, joint with Jonas Bergström and Gerard van der Geer. | |
| Beginn: 16.15 Uhr | |
| 02.05.2012 | Angela Ortega (HU Berlin) |
| The Brill-Noether curve and Prym-Tyurin varieties | |
| Abstract: Prym-Tyurin varieties are principally polarized abelian subvarieties of a Jacobian, which generalize the classical Prym varieties associated to a étale double covers between curves. In this talk we will show that the general curve C of genus g=2a+1 can be realized as a Prym-Tyurin variety for the Brill-Noether curve W1a+2(C). As a consequence of this result we are able to compute the class of the sum of secant divisors of the curve C, embedded with a complete linear series ga-13a-2. | |
| Beginn: 15.15 Uhr | |
| Ronnie Sebastian (HU Berlin) | |
| Smash nilpotence on abelian varieties | |
| Abstract: To have a good theory of algebraic cycles on smooth projective varieties, one has to go modulo equivalence relations on the group of cycles. One such equivalence relation is smash nilpotence, which was introduced by Voevodsky, who conjectured it to be same as numerical equivalence. After defining an adequate equivalence relation and giving some examples, I will state some results from Kimura's theory of finite dimensionality of motives, and as an application we will see some non trivial examples of smash nilpotent cycles. | |
| Beginn: 16.30 Uhr | |
| 09.05.2012 | Alessandro Verra (Univ. Roma Tre) |
| Prym moduli spaces in low genus and nodal conic bundles | |
| Abstract: The talk reports some results and conjectures on the global geometry of the Prym moduli space Rg for g = 6, 7, 8. Parametrizations via some Severi varieties of nodal conic bundles are described. Related question on the uniruledness of R8 and new proofs of the unirationality of R7 and R6 are proposed. | |
| 16.05.2012 | Gian Pietro Pirola (Univ. Pavia) |
| The Fano surface of the cubic 3-fold and its normal function | |
| Abstract: The Fano surface of the cubic 3-fold has been used by Clemens and Griffiths to prove the nonrationality of a smooth cubic 3-fold. The Fano surfaces also give very interesting examples of irregular surfaces. We discuss their geometry in connection with classification problems on surfaces and the theory of cycles on abelian varieties. In particular we study a natural normal function defined by the embeddings of the Fano surfaces in their Albanese varieties. The new results have been obtained in a joint work with Alberto Collino and Juan Carlos Naranjo. | |
| 23.05.2012 | kein Seminar |
| 30.05.2012 | Noah Giansiracusa (Univ. Zürich) |
| GIT compactifications of M0,n and flips | |
| Abstract: Despite intensive investigation over the years and its innocuously classical appearance, there remain some tantalizing open questions regarding the birational geometry of the moduli space of marked rational curves. One such question, dating from a 2000 paper of Hu and Keel, is to determine whether M0,n is a Mori dream space. Roughly speaking, this would say that its Mori-theoretic information is completely determined by variational GIT in a natural way. In this talk I will discuss joint work with Dave Jensen and Han-Bom Moon in which we construct a wide range of birational models using a GIT construction inspired by two constructions of Kapranov from 1993. These models include M0,n itself as well as all the Hassett weighted models. A consequence is that we exhibit explicit flips between models and give a glimpse of the Mori dream behavior envisioned by Hu and Keel. | |
| 06.06.2012 | Arnaud Beauville (Univ. Nice) |
| Abelian varieties associated to Gaussian lattices | |
| Abstract: Let Γ be a self-dual lattice, endowed with an automorphism of square -1. Then AΓ =ΓR/Γ is a principally polarized abelian variety, with an automorphism i of square -1. I will show that the configuration of i-invariant theta divisors of AΓ follows a pattern very similar to the classical theory of theta characteristics; as a consequence AΓ has a high number of vanishing thetanulls. When Γ =E8 we recover the 10 vanishing thetanulls of the abelian fourfold discovered by R. Varley. | |
| 13.06.2012 | Leticia Brambilla-Paz (CIMAT Guanajuato) |
| 20.06.2012 | |
| 27.06.2012 | |
| 04.07.2012 | |
| 11.07.2012 | |
Wintersemester 2007/08
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Rückfragen an: Christa Dobers
e-mail: dobers@math.hu-berlin.de