Curves
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We will meet at 2:30 pm on Tuesdays in E406.
Here is a tentative schedule for reading chapter 4 of Hartshorne during Spring 2025:
| Date | Plan | Speaker |
| January 14: | Review of Weil divisors, class group, examples | Nat |
| January 21: | Cancelled due to weather/campus closure | |
| January 28: | Cartier divisors, invertible sheaves | Nat |
| February 4: | Relative differentials, canonical sheaf, Riemann-Roch | Matthew |
| February 11: | Hurwitz's Theorem | Akash |
| February 18: | Embeddings in proj space pt 1 | ??? |
| February 25: | Embeddings in proj space pt 2 | Nat |
| March 4: | Elliptic curves: j-invariant | ??? |
| March 18: | Elliptic curves: group structure, jacobian variety | ??? |
| March 25: | Elliptic curves: elliptic functions | Nat |
| April 1: | Elliptic curves: Hasse invariant, rational points | Nat |
| April 8: | The cannonical embedding, classification of curves | ??? |
| April 15: | Classification of curves in P^3 | ??? |
| April 22: | Geometry on a surface | ??? |
| April 29: | Ruled surfaces | ??? |