Study group on Geometric Invariant Theory

This working seminar takes place on Fridays from 3 to 3:50 pm in Room 4422 at the CUNY Graduate Center. All are welcome.

Our goal is to study Geometric Invariant Theory, and its application to moduli problems in particular.

Schedule of upcoming talks

October 14	Bart Van Steirteghem	Organization and Introduction
October 21 3:45pm - 4:45pm	Bart Van Steirteghem	The GIT construction of \bar{M_g}
October 28	Bart Van Steirteghem	The GIT construction of \bar{M_g}, continued
November 4	Bart Van Steirteghem	The GIT construction of \bar{M_g}, continued
November 11	Bart Van Steirteghem	The GIT construction of \bar{M_g}, continued
November 18	Bart Van Steirteghem	The GIT construction of \bar{M_g}, continued
November 25	No Seminar	Thanksgiving
December 2	Bart Van Steirteghem	The GIT construction of \bar{M_g}, continued
December 9	Lloyd West	Some properties of M_g

References

• Michel Brion, Introduction to actions of algebraic groups, Les cours du CIRM, 1 no. 1 (2010), 1-22 [pdf]
• Peter Newstead, Geometric Invariant Theory, Lecture Notes CIMPA-2006 [pdf]

Organized by Bart Van Steirteghem (bartvs "at-sign" mec "dot" cuny "dot" edu).

Previous semesters: Spring 2011

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Last update: 2 December 2011