The Algebraic Geometry seminar is held on Wednesdays at 11:30am in T420. Everybody is welcome. (Perhaps you'd be interested in attending the Twisted Cubic too?)

• 23rd July: Diane Maclagan (University of Warwick), Smooth multigraded Hilbert schemes (3pm)
• 2nd July: Al Kasprzyk, Recovering group actions from fake weighted projective spaces
• 25th June: Al Kasprzyk, The toric Deligne-Mumford stack associated to a stacky fan (2:30pm)
• 28th May: Basil Nanayakkara, More on categories fibered in groupoids
• 21st May: Al Kasprzyk, A boundedness result of Dais and Nill for toric log del Pezzo surfaces
• 30th April: Colin Ingalls, Non-commutative resolutions
• 16th April: Basil Nanayakkara, Valuations and the ramification index
• 9th April: Al Kasprzyk, The Riemann-Roch contributions from isolated 1/r(a,b,c)
• 26th March: Colin Ingalls, Thoughts on orbifold Riemann-Roch
• 12th March: Basil Nanayakkara, Orbifold Riemann-Roch
• 27th February: Al Kasprzyk, Toric methods for hyperquotient singularities
• 20th February: Eric Robert, The Brauer-Manin obstruction to the Hasse Principle
• 13th February: Al Kasprzyk, Knights on a Chess board: A Hilbert series calculation with Macaulay2
• 6th February: Colin Ingalls, The Brauer group
• 23rd January: Colin Ingalls, Canonical singularities are rational
• 16th January: Al Kasprzyk, cDV singularities, and cyclic covers

• 19th December: Al Kasprzyk, A reciprocity theorem for Fano polytopes
• 12th December: Colin Ingalls, Deformation theory
• 5th December: Al Kasprzyk, Calculations with Hilbert Series continued
• 28th November: Al Kasprzyk, Calculations with Hilbert Series
• 21st November: Basil Nanayakkara, X_36 in P(7,8,9,12)
• 14th November: Basil Nanayakkara, Weighted complete intersections
• 7th November: Haitao Liu, Chern-Simons action
• 31th October: Colin Ingalls, Basic properties of Cohen-Macaulay rings, Part II
• 17th October: Colin Ingalls, Basic properties of Cohen-Macaulay rings, Part I
• 10th October: Al Kasprzyk, A first look at the canonical ring
• 3rd October: Colin Ingalls, Motivational examples, Part II
• 26th September: Colin Ingalls, Motivational examples, Part I
• 19th September: Basil Nanayakkara, Introduction to terminal and canonical singularities, Part II
• 12th September: Basil Nanayakkara, Introduction to terminal and canonical singularities, Part I
• 5th September: Al Kasprzyk, Du Val singularities and the McKay correspondence
• 29th August: Al Kasprzyk, Du Val singularities: A_1, A_n, and D_4
• 22nd August: Al Kasprzyk, Hirzebruch-Jung continued fractions, the Newton polygon, and 1/r(1,a)
• 15th August: Al Kasprzyk, 1/r(1,1)
• 8th August: Al Kasprzyk, Cyclic quotient singularities and 1/2(1,1)