SMUGA, Working seminar in Algebraic Geometry

Academimc year 2013/2014, Winter term

S.M.U.G.A. = Seminarium Młodych Umysłów Geometrii Algebraicznej (not quite, something like: "seminar of young algebro-geometric minds").
smuga = Polish word for "streak".

Organisers: Weronika Buczyńska and Jarosław Buczyński

SMUGA is a working seminar in Algebraic Geometry running in Warsaw (either at MIMUW or at IMPAN). It is intended for students of Master program, PhD students, postdocs and professors interested in Algebraic Geometry. Everyone is welcome to attend and suggest a topic (also for future).

The idea of the seminar is to understand in detail a very specific problem, subject, article, or series of related articles.

In 2013/2014 (winter term) we meet on Wednesdays 12:15--13:45 at MIMUW, as a part of SZLAG (Środy Z Lekcjami Algebraicznej Geometrii). The classroom is 1780.

Schedule:

When?Who?What?
02.10.2013Jarek BuczyńskiIntroduction to contact manifolds I: homogeneity of forms and vector fields, symplectic-contact sandwich
09.10.2013Jarek BuczyńskiIntroduction to contact manifolds II: vector fields and automorphisms, C*-bundles, contact structure on nilpotent orbits, contact lines
16.10.2013Jarek BuczyńskiIntroduction to contact manifolds III: Deformations of curves (mainly rational), bend and break lemma, Legendrian varieties
23.10.2013Elisa PostinghelLines on contact Fano manifolds after Kebekus
30.10.2013Jarek WiśniewskiFano contact manifolds and nilpotent orbits after Beauville
06.11.2013****no meeting ****Oberwolfach workshop
13.11.2013Marysia Donten-BuryProjective contact manifolds after KPSW
20.11.2013Piotr Pokora Equivalence problem for minimal rational curves with isotrivial varieties of minimal rational tangents (Hwang, Mok), part I
27.11.2013Piotr Pokora VMRTs, part II
04.12.2013Piotr Pokora VMRTs, part III
11.12.2013****no meeting ****Coskun's lectures at IMPAN
18.12.2013****no meeting ****Coskun's lectures at IMPAN
08.01.2014Adam Michalik VMRTs, part IV
15.01.2014Adam Michalik VMRTs, part V
22.01.2014Mateusz Michałek Matroids (and algebraic geometry): an easy introduction to matroid theory, and relations to toric geometry, focusing on White's conjecture
29.01-26.02****no meeting ****winter holidays

Current reading:

We begin this term with an overview of complex contact manifolds.
Possible readings:
Stefan Kebekus, Lines on contact manifolds, Journal fur die reine und angewandte Mathematik, Vol. 539, pp. 167-177, 2001.
Arnaud Beauville, Fano contact manifolds and nilpotent orbits, Comment. Math. Helv. 73 (1998) 566-583.
Stefan Kebekus, Thomas Peternell, Andrew J. Sommese and Jarosław A. Wiśniewski, Projective contact manifolds, Inventiones Mathematicae, Vol. 142, No. 1, pp. 1-15, 2000.

Links:

List of topics suggested so far is here.

Webpage of past SMUGA 2012/2013.