Emory algebra seminar schedule (spring 2008)

Organizers: Eric Brussel | Skip Garibaldi (main) | R. Parimala | Vicki Powers

The seminar usually meets Tuesdays at 4pm in MSC W303, but there are many exceptions.

This seminar brought to you by the Emory University Algebra Group.

Week Day Date Speaker Topic
0 Th 17 Jan Brendan Hassett (Rice) Colloquium - postponed until 6 March
1 Th 24 Jan Yuri Tschinkel (NYU & Göttingen) Colloquium at 4pm in W201
Curves and their Jacobians over finite fields
2 Tu 30 Jan Garibaldi Simple Lie algebras and how 2, 3, and 5 are different from all other primes
3 Tu 5 Feb No seminar (election day)
4 Tu 12 Feb No seminar
5 Tu 19 Feb Garibaldi Dense orbits and Spin groups
6 Th 28 Feb No seminar
7 Th 6 March Brendan Hassett (Rice) Colloquium at 4pm in W201
Approximation results for varieties of low degree
8 Tu 11 March No seminar (spring break)
9 Tu 18 March No seminar
10 Tu 25 March Bjorn Poonen (UC Berkeley) Colloquium at 4pm in W201
Lattice polygons and the number 12
11 Th 3 April Zinovy Reichstein (UBC) Colloquium at 4pm in W201
Pfister numbers for quadratic forms
Fri 4 April Informal discussion of essential dimension
4pm in E408
12 Mon 7 April J.-L. Colliot-Thélène
(CNRS [Université Paris-Sud] and Emory) Special seminar in E408
The Brauer-Manin obstruction I
13 Mon 14 Apr Special seminar in E408
The Brauer-Manin obstruction II
Tu 15 April Dan Nakano (U. Georgia) Lie superalgebras: geometry and cohomology
Sat 19 April Conference: Day of arithmetic
14 Tu 22 Apr J.-L. Colliot-Thélène The Brauer Manin-Obstruction III
15 Tu 29 Apr The Brauer Manin-Obstruction IV
Thursday, 12 June Workshop on exceptional groups in E406

12:30pm: Skip Garibaldi - Vanishing of trace forms in low characteristics
1:30pm: Audrey Malagon - Killing forms of Lie algebras
2:30pm: coffee break
3pm: Fred Helenius - Freudenthal triple systems by root system methods
4pm: Nikita Semenov (Universität München) - Generically cellular twisted flag varieties

Week	Day	Date	Speaker	Topic
0	Th	17 Jan	Brendan Hassett (Rice)	Colloquium - postponed until 6 March
1	Th	24 Jan	Yuri Tschinkel (NYU & Göttingen)	Colloquium at 4pm in W201 Curves and their Jacobians over finite fields
2	Tu	30 Jan	Garibaldi	Simple Lie algebras and how 2, 3, and 5 are different from all other primes
3	Tu	5 Feb	No seminar (election day)
4	Tu	12 Feb	No seminar
5	Tu	19 Feb	Garibaldi	Dense orbits and Spin groups
6	Th	28 Feb	No seminar
7	Th	6 March	Brendan Hassett (Rice)	Colloquium at 4pm in W201 Approximation results for varieties of low degree
8	Tu	11 March	No seminar (spring break)
9	Tu	18 March	No seminar
10	Tu	25 March	Bjorn Poonen (UC Berkeley)	Colloquium at 4pm in W201 Lattice polygons and the number 12
11	Th	3 April	Zinovy Reichstein (UBC)	Colloquium at 4pm in W201 Pfister numbers for quadratic forms
Fri	4 April	Informal discussion of essential dimension 4pm in E408
12	Mon	7 April	J.-L. Colliot-Thélène (CNRS [Université Paris-Sud] and Emory)	Special seminar in E408 The Brauer-Manin obstruction I
13	Mon	14 Apr	Special seminar in E408 The Brauer-Manin obstruction II
Tu	15 April	Dan Nakano (U. Georgia)	Lie superalgebras: geometry and cohomology
Sat	19 April	Conference: Day of arithmetic
14	Tu	22 Apr	J.-L. Colliot-Thélène	The Brauer Manin-Obstruction III
15	Tu	29 Apr	The Brauer Manin-Obstruction IV
Thursday, 12 June	Workshop on exceptional groups in E406 12:30pm: Skip Garibaldi - Vanishing of trace forms in low characteristics 1:30pm: Audrey Malagon - Killing forms of Lie algebras 2:30pm: coffee break 3pm: Fred Helenius - Freudenthal triple systems by root system methods 4pm: Nikita Semenov (Universität München) - Generically cellular twisted flag varieties

You can also see the schedules of seminars from past semesters or the Department's official listing of algebra seminars.

Nearby seminars: UGA algebra, UGA number theory