Texas Algebraic Geometry Symposium


Texas A&M University 30 September – 2 October 2022.

 
 

 
  TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
College of Arts 
& Sciences
The Texas Algebraic Geometry Symposium is a joint seminar of Rice University, Texas A&M University, and the University of Texas at Austin. This conference aims to bring to a regional audience the latest developments in Algebraic Geometry.

After a CoViD break of over two years, this yearly meeting returns. It will be held over the weekend of September 30 – October 2 in 2022 on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station.

Speakers:
 Patricio Gallardo   University of California at Riverside
 Evangelia Gazaki   University of Virginia
 Jack Jeffries   University of Nebraska
 Jesse Kass   University of California at Santa Cruz
 Patricia Klein   Texas A&M University
 Brandon Levin   Rice University
 Aida Maraj   University of Michigan
 Bernd Siebert   University of Texas at Austin
Organizers: Anthony Várilly-Alvarado (Rice University), Frank Sottile, Gregory Pearlstein, and other faculty at Texas A&M.
Registration
Poster Session: There will be a poster session for participants, with a prize of $200 for the best poster by a student or postdoc.
Funding: This conference is supported by NSF grant DMS-1758574. We will have a limited amount of support available to cover travel expenses for graduate students and early-career participants. Request this with your registration.
Local and Practical Information
Conference Program         Abstracts
Friday, 30 September
4:00–5:00 PM Arrival and Registration Ground floor of Blocker Building
5:00–6:00 PM Patricia KleinAlternating sign matrix varieties
6:00–7:30 PM Catered Dinner on site
7:30–8:30 PM Brandon LevinModuli of Galois representations and Serre's modularity conjecture
Saturday, 1 October
9:00–10:00 Bernd Siebert Toward the logarithmic Hilbert scheme
10:00–10:30 Break
10:30–11:30 Jack Jeffries Are determinantal rings direct summands of polynomial rings?
11:30–13:30 Lunch   (put up posters)Local Restaurants
13:30–14:30 Aida Maraj Colored Gaussian Graphical Models with Toric Vanishing Ideals
14:30–15:00 Break
15:00–16:00 Jesse Kass Counting curves arithmetically
16:00–18:30 Reception and poster session
19:00— Dinner/banquet at local restauran TBA
Sunday, 2 October
9:30–10:30 Patricio Gallardo Moduli of points in the plane, wall-crossings, and non-reduced schemes
10:30–11:00 Break
11:00–12:00 Evangelia GazakiLocal-to-global principles for zero-cycles