Abelian Varieties 2018

Overview

This reading seminar will cover Kempf's "Complex Abelian Varieties and Theta Functions" book. Talks will be Mondays, 4:00-4:50 in Room B139.

We can try to cover Chapters 1-7 and Chapter 11 and maybe some topics from the other chapters of Birkenhake and Lange's "Complex Abelian Varieties" as time permits.

Talk Schedule

The following schedule might be adjusted as we go, depending on whether it seems too fast or not.

Here is the [Table of Contents] of Kempf's book.

date	speaker	sections
February 5	Rachel Davis	1.1-1.3
February 12	Soumya Sankar	1.4-1.5
February 19	Michael Brown	2.1-2.2
February 26	TBD	2.3-2.4
March 5	TBD	3.1-3.3
March 12	TBD	3.4-3.6
March 19	TBD	4
March 26	No meeting	Spring Break
April 2	TBD	5.1-5.3
April 9	TBD	5.3-5.5
April 16	TBD	6
April 23	TBD	7
April 30	TBD	11
May 7	TBD	???