Algebra Seminar: Fall 2009

Wednesday Sep 30
15:00-15:50 (MS 5127)	Alexander Merkurjev (UCLA)	Introduction to the Book of Involutions
Friday Oct 02
15:00-15:50 (MS 5128)	Viraj Navkal (UCLA)	Algebraic curves I: Riemann-Roch theorem.
Wednesday Oct 07
15:00-15:50 (MS 5127)	Semyon Blinstein (UCLA)	BOI seminar: Central simple algebras
Wednesday Oct 14
15:00-15:50 (MS 5127)	Semyon Blinstein (UCLA)	BOI seminar: Central simple algebras II
Friday Oct 16
15:00-15:50 (MS 5128)	Adam Massey (UCLA)	Algebraic curves 3: Embeddings in projective space.
Wednesday Oct 21
15:00-15:50 (MS 5127)	Bin Zhao (UCLA)	BOI seminar: Involutions I
Friday Oct 23
15:00-15:50 (MS 5128)	--- (UCLA)	No meeting this week.
Wednesday Oct 28
15:00-15:50 (MS 5127)	Bin Zhao (UCLA)	BOI seminar: Involutions II
Friday Oct 30
15:00-15:50 (MS 5128)	--- (UCLA)	Problem session.
Wednesday Nov 04
15:00-15:50 (MS 5127)	Bin Zhao (UCLA)	BOI seminar: Involutions III
Friday Nov 06
15:00-15:50 (MS 5128)	Wanshun Wong (UCLA)	Algebraic curves 4: Elliptic curves: the j-invariant.
Friday Nov 13
15:00-15:50 (MS 5128)	Justin Shih (UCLA)	Algebraic curves 5: Elliptic curves: the group structure.
Wednesday Nov 18
15:00-15:50 (MS 5127)	Justin Shih (UCLA)	BOI seminar: Existence of involutions I
Friday Nov 20
15:00-15:50 (MS 5128)	Sam Blinstein (UCLA)	Algebraic curves 6: canonical embedding.
Wednesday Nov 25
15:00-15:50 (MS 5127)	Justin Shih (UCLA)	BOI seminar: Existence of involutions II
Wednesday Dec 02
15:00-15:50 (MS 5127)	TBA (UCLA)	BOI seminar: TBA
Saturday Dec 05
SCAC - Southern California Algebra Conference
13:00-17:00 (MS6627)	See http://csulb.edu/~wmurray/scac.html

14:00-15:00 (MS6627)	Mircea Voineagu (USC)	Vanishing theorems of real algebraic cycles

16:00-17:00 (MS6627)	Jon McCammond (UC Santa Barbara)	Pulling apart orthogonal groups to find continuous braids