Student Algebra Seminar, Spring 2012

Location: Thursdays at 10:30 AM in PHSC 1025

Organizer: Daniel McLaury (mclaury@ou.edu)

Focus

Elementary Algebraic Geometry

We will be working our way through Daniel Perrin's "Algebraic Geometry: An Introduction," and possibly "Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms" by Cox, Little, and O'Shea. Both are available online through the OU library (see below).

Practice Talks

If you are giving an algebra-related talk at a conference, or at the OU Algebra Seminar, we'd be happy to give you feedback. Contact the organizer via email (above) or in person if you'd like to give a talk.

Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title (hover for abstract)	Notes
4/26/2012	Catherine Hall	Invariant vectors and level raising operators in representations of the p-adic group GL(3)
4/19/2012	Daniel McLaury	Tangent spaces - II and Singular Points
4/12/2012	Daniel McLaury	Tangent spaces - I
4/5/2012	Salam Turki	The Intersection Theorem
3/29/2012	Houssein El Turkey	Dimension - II
3/15/2012	Daniel McLaury	Dimension and Krull's Principal Ideal Theorem
3/8/2012	Daniel McLaury	The Local Ring of a Variety at a Point
3/1/2012	Catherine Hall	Algebraic varieties
2/23/2012	Salam Turki	Affine varieties
2/16/2012	Houssein El Turkey	Sheaves - II
2/9/2012	Houssein El Turkey	Sheaves - I
2/2/2012	Daniel McLaury	Vector bundles and projective embeddings
1/26/2012	Daniel McLaury	Examples in Projective Space
12/9/2011	Houssein El Turkey	Projective Space
12/2/2011	Daniel McLaury	Dominant Morphisms
11/18/2011	Daniel McLaury	Morphisms of Varieties
11/11/2011	Catherine Hall	The strong Nullstellensatz
11/4/2011	Catherine Hall	The weak Nullstellensatz
10/28/2011	Jieru Zhu	Consequences of the Nullstellensatz
10/21/2011	Sean Bauer	Irrational numbers and the KAM theorem
10/14/2011	Thomas Madsen	Irreducibility
9/30/2011	Salam Turki	Ideals
9/23/2011	Salam Turki	The Zariski Topology
9/9/2011	Houssein El Turkey; Kumar Balasubramanian	Presenting Schur Superalgebras; Self-dual representations and signs
9/2/2011	Daniel McLaury	Intro to Gröbner Bases

Additional Resources

• Algebraic Geometry: An Introduction by Daniel Perrin (OU login required)
• Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms by Cox, Little, and O'Shea (OU login required)
• J.S. Milne's Algebraic Geometry Notes.
• Student algebra seminar schedule from last term.
• Home pages of other seminars in the department.
• The events calendar for the department.