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Texas Algebraic Geometry SymposiumTexas A&M University 17 – 19 April 2026. | 
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The Texas Algebraic Geometry Symposium is a yearly 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.
It has been running (mostly) annually since 2005. Recent past meetings: 2025 2024 2022. Speakers: Sarah Frei Rice University Joe Kileel University of Texas Justin Lacini Texas A&M University Jackson Morrow University of North Texas Hunter Spink University of Toronto Kevin Tucker University of Illinois at Chicago Rachel Webb Cornell University |
| Friday, 17 April | ||
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| 17:00–17:30 PM | Arrival and Registration | Ground floor of Blocker Building |
| 17:30–18:30 | Catered Dinner on site | Aroma Indian & Nepalese Cusine |
| 18:30–18:35 | Opening Remarks | |
| 18:35–19:35 | Justin Lacini | Syzygies and singularities of secant varieties of smooth projective varieties |
| Saturday, 18 April | ||
| 8:30–9:00 | Registration and Coffee | Ground floor of Blocker Building |
| 9:00–10:00 | Kevin Tucker | |
| 10:00–10:30 | Break | |
| 10:30–11:30 | Sarah Frei | Rationality in arithmetic families |
| 11:30–11:45 | Students meet with speakers | Blocker 166 |
| 11:45–14:30 | Lunch | Local Restaurants |
| 14:30–15:30 | Rachel Webb | Twisted weighted stable maps |
| 15:30–16:00 | Break | |
| 16:00–17:00 | Hunter Spink | |
| 17:00–17:15 | Students meet with speakers | Blocker 166 |
| 17:15–19:00 | Reception and Poster Session | |
| 19:00— | Catered Dinner on site | Napa Flats |
| Sunday, 19 April | ||
| 9:00–9:30 | Coffee | |
| 9:30–10:30 | Jackson Morrow | Arithmetic differential equations and unlikely intersections |
| 10:30–11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00–12:00 | Joe Kileel | Covering numbers and norming sets of real algebraic varieties |
| 12:00–12:05 | Closing Remarks | |
| 12:05–12:20 | Students meet with speakers | Blocker 166 |
