Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Mathem.-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Institut für Mathematik
Sommersemester 2015
Das Forschungsseminar findet mittwochs in der Zeit von 15:00 - 17:00 Uhr in der Rudower Chaussee 25, 12489 Berlin-Adlershof, Raum 2.006 (Haus 2, Erdgeschoss), statt.
Seminar: Algebraic Geometry an der FU
| 15.04.2015 | Andreas Leopold Knutsen (University of Bergen) |
| Title: Moduli of nodal curves on K3 and abelian surfaces | |
| Abstract: The study of nodal curves in the (complex) plane was initiated by Severi in the 20s. Results of Severi, Harris and Sernesi imply that the variety parametrizing plane nodal curves of any fixed degree and allowed geometric genus (so-called Severi varieties) is nonempty, smooth and irreducible of the expected dimension, and the family of curves has the expected number of moduli (meaning that their normalizations have the expected number of moduli). Similar questions are quite open on most other surfaces. In the talk I will present recent progress concerning the moduli problem on K3 and abelian surfaces, where the natural objects to consider are the varieties parametrizing nodal curves on the surfaces allowing the surfaces to move in suitable moduli spaces (so-called universal Severi varieties). It turns out that such families of curves have the expected number of moduli except possibly for finitely many cases (and two known exceptions in the case of smooth curves). The K3 case is work joint with Ciliberto, Flamini and Galati, and partially intersects recent results obtained by Kemeny. The abelian case is joint work with Lelli-Chiesa and Mongardi. |
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| 23.04.2015 (DONNERSTAG, RAUM 4.007) | Seminar Einstein Stiftung: Rahul Pandharipande (ETH Zürich) und Dragos Oprea (University of California, San Diego) |
| Title Rahul Pandharipande: A compactification of the space of meromorphic differentials | |
| Abstract: I will discuss a proposal for a compactification of the spaces of (C,w) where C is a nonsingular curve and w is a meromorphic differential with specified orders of zeros and poles. Joint work with G. Farkas. | |
| Title Dragos Oprea: The Chern characters of the Verlinde bundles | |
| Abstract: The Verlinde bundles are constructed over the moduli space of curves by considering relative moduli spaces of vector bundles. Their Chern characters yield a cohomological field theory. I will explain how Teleman's work on semisimple cohomological field theories can be used to derive explicit formulas for the Chern characters in terms of tautological classes. This is joint work with A. Marian, R. Pandharipande, A. Pixton and D. Zvonkine. | |
| 29.04.2015 | Frank Gounelas (HU Berlin) |
| Title: Positivity of the cotangent bundle of Calabi-Yau varieties | |
| Abstract: In this talk I will discuss various notions of positivity for a vector bundle and how these are related to classification problems of higher dimensional algebraic varieties in the case of the cotangent bundle. Studying in particular the case of Calabi-Yau varieties of dimension two and three, which lie very close to the border between varieties of non-negative and negative Kodaira dimension, one finds a rich source of interesting examples. | |
| 06.05.2015 | Alex Küronya (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) |
| Title: Newton-Okounkov bodies and local positivity | |
| Abstract: The concept of Newton-Okounkov bodies is a recent attempt to understand the asymptotics of vanishing behaviour of global sections of line bundles on projective varieties via convex geometry. In this talk we first give a quick outline of the existing theory along with the construction of geometrically significant concave functions on Okounkov bodies. The second part of the lecture will be devoted to a study of local positivity of ample line bundles via Okounkov bodies. | |
| 13.05.2015 | Takehiko Yasuda (Osaka University, zzt. Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik) |
| Title: The wild McKay correspondence and stringy invariants | |
| Abstract: A version of the McKay correspondence in terms of stringy invariants was proved by Batyrev. Later, Denef and Loeser found an elegant approach to this result by using motivic integration. In this talk, we discuss a generalization of their works to positive or mixed characteristic, emphasizing the case where the given finite group has order divisible by the characteristic of the base/residue field. To explain the main result, let us consider a finite group G acting on an affine space V over the integer ring O of a local field K (for instance, K=k((t)) and O=k[[t]] with k a finite field). Suppose there exists a crepant resolution Y of V/G. The main result roughly says that the number of rational points of Y over the residue field of O is equal to a weighted count of G-extensions of K. Such weighted counts of G-extensions had been originally studied in the number theory. A special case of our result relates Bhargava’s mass formula of etale algebras over a local field with the Hilbert scheme of points on the affine plane. | |
| 20.05.2015 | kein Seminar |
| 28.05.2015 (DONNERSTAG) | Alessandro Verra (Università Roma Tre) |
| Title: Congruences of order 1 of secant spaces to a projective surface | |
| Abstract: A classical theorem of Severi classifies smooth, integral surfaces X in P5 such that the family of their bisecant lines has order 1, that is exactly one line of the family is passing through a general point of P5. Natural generalizations of this theorem are described, in order to answer the following question: when the congruence of k-secant r-spaces to a projective integral variety in Pn has order 1? The problem and its answer are studied in the next case to be considered: namely the congruence of 4-secant planes to a surface in P6. | |
| 03.06.2015 | kein Seminar |
| 10.06.2015 | Victoria Hoskins (FU Berlin) |
| Title: Algebraic symplectic varieties via non-reductive geometric invariant theory | |
| Abstract: We give a new construction of algebraic symplectic varieties by taking a non-reductive algebraic symplectic reduction of the cotangent lift of an action of the additive group on an affine space. Our motivation is to construct algebraic symplectic analogues of moduli spaces. For a linear action of the additive group on an affine space over the complex numbers, the non-reductive GIT quotient is isomorphic to a reductive affine GIT quotient; however, we show that the corresponding non-reductive and reductive algebraic symplectic reductions are not isomorphic, but rather birationally symplectomorphic. | |
| 17.06.2015 | Nicola Tarasca (University of Utah) |
| Title: Loci of curves with subcanonical points in low genus | |
| Abstract: The locus of curves of genus 3 with a marked subcanonical point has two components: the locus of hyperelliptic curves with a marked Weierstrass point, and the locus of non-hyperelliptic curves with a marked hyperflex. In this talk, I will show how to compute the classes of the closures of these codimension-two loci in the moduli space of stable curves of genus 3 with a marked point. Similarly, I will present the class of the closure of the locus of curves of genus four with an even theta characteristic vanishing with order three at a certain point. Finally, I will discuss the geometric consequences of these computations. This is joint work with Dawei Chen. | |
| 25.06.2015 (DONNERSTAG) | Seminar Einstein Stiftung: Rahul Pandharipande (ETH Zürich) und Carel Faber (Utrecht University, Niederlande) |
| Title Rahul Pandharipande: Counting curves on abelian surfaces | |
Abstract: I will discuss aspects of curve counting on abelian surfaces: lattice counts, modular forms, hyperelliptic curves, and Gromov-Witten theory. The talk represents joint work with J. Bryan, G. Oberdieck, and Q. Yin. | |
| Title Carel Faber: On Teichmüller modular forms | |
Abstract: Vector valued Siegel modular forms may be viewed as sections on a toroidal compactification of Ag of the bundles obtained by applying a Schur functor for GL(g) to the Hodge bundle. Similarly, Teichmüller modular forms are sections on Mg or its Deligne-Mumford compactification of the pullbacks of those bundles via the Torelli morphism. I will first recall several results of Ichikawa on scalar valued Teichmüller modular forms, of genus three especially. Then I will report how joint work with Bergström and Van der Geer indicates the existence of many vector valued Teichmüller modular forms of genus three. | |
| 03.07.2015 (FREITAG, 14:00 Uhr c.t., Raum 1.023) | Christian Lehn (Universität Hannover) |
| Title: Deformations of birational morphisms between symplectic varieties | |
Abstract: By a well-known theorem of Daniel Huybrechts, two birational irreducible symplectic manifolds are deformation equivalent. I will sketch a generalization of this result to ℚ-factorial singular symplectic varieties, which was established in a joint work with G. Pacienza. The results rely on a detailed analysis of the deformation theory of divisorial contractions and may be applied to yield termination of arbitrary log-MMPs on irreducible symplectic varieties. Then I will explain how these results can be extended to the case of small contractions. It seems that the picture is similar to the case of divisorial contractions. There are many interesting open questions and possible applications to classification results for contractions on symplectic manifolds of K3[n] type. This is joint work in progress with B. Bakker. |