Reading Seminar 2018-19

Overview

My (Daniel's) experience has been that reading seminars have diminishing returns: they run out of steam after about 8 lectures on a certain book, as everyone starts falling behind, etc. So I was thinking we might aim a bit lower, planning to start 3 books, but not planning as many lectures in each. So my idea is to partly cover 3 different books: Beauville's "Complex Algebraic Surfaces"; Atiyah's "K-theory"; and Harris and Morrison's "Moduli of Curves". We would do about 6 lectures on each. This allows us to reboot every two months, which I hope will be mentally refreshing and will allow people who have lost the thread of the book to rejoin. Anyways, it's an experiment!

Some notes:

• There's a lot of talks here, so I will need some other people to help with logistics. In particular: I am very bad at sending reminder emails, so if you are willing to send the reminder emails for one of the books, that would be great.
• I left some "Makeup" dates in the schedule with the idea that we would most likely take a week off on those dates. But if we need to miss another date (because of a conflict with a special colloquium or some other event), then we can use those as makeup slots.

Talk Schedule

date	speaker	sections
September 4	??	Beauville 1
September 11	??	Beauville 2
September 18	??	Beauville 3
September 25	??	Beauville 4
October 2	??	Beauville 5
October 9	??	Beauville 6
Ocrober 16	??	Beauville 7
October 23	??	Beauville 8
October 30	??	Makeup date
November 6	??	Atiyah 1
November 13	??	Atiyah 2
November 20	??	Atiyah 3
November 27	??	Makeup
SEMESETER BREAK	No meetings
January 29	??	Atiyah 4
February 5	??	Atiyah 5
February 12	??	Atiyah 6
February 19	??	Makeup
February 26	??	Moduli 1
February 26	??	Moduli 1
March 5	??	Moduli 2
March 12	??	Moduli 3
March 19	??	Moduli 4
March 26	??	Moduli 5
March 26	??	Moduli 6
April 2	??	Moduli 7
April 9	??	Moduli 8
April 16	??	Makeup