Mathematics Colloquium

All colloquia are on Fridays at 4:00 pm in Van Vleck B239, unless otherwise indicated.

Fall 2015

Go to next semester, Spring 2016.

date	speaker	title	host(s)
September 4	Isaac Goldbring (UIC)		Andrews/Lempp
September 11	Doron Puder (IAS)		Gurevich
September 18	Izzet Coskun (UIC)		Erman
September 25	Abbas Ourmazd (UW-Milwaukee)		Mitchell
October 2
October 9	Igor Mezic (UC Santa Barbara)		Budisic, Thiffeault
October 16	Hadi Salmasian (Ottawa)		Gurevich
October 23	Wisconsin Science Festival.
October 30	Ruth Charney (Brandeis)		Dymarz
November 6	Reserved *S
November 13	Reserved
November 20	Reserved
November 27	University Holiday	No Colloquium
December 4	Reserved
December 11	Reserved

Abstracts

September 4: Isaac Goldbring (UIC)

September 18: Izzet Coskun (UIC)

Title: The geometry of points in the plane

Abstract: Grothendieck's Hilbert scheme of points is a smooth compactification of the configuration space of points in the plane. It has close connections with combinatorics, representation theory, mathematical physics and algebraic geometry. In this talk, I will survey some of the basic properties of this beautiful space. If time permits, I will discuss joint work with Arcara, Bertram and Huizenga on codimension one subvarieties of the Hilbert scheme.