COW seminar

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The general organisers are Miles Reid at Warwick and Gregory Sankaran at Bath. Many other people help.

The COW seminar is funded by the London Mathematical Society. The funds are held at Bath. To claim your travel expenses you have to fill in a Bath travel claim form (the word COW should appear prominently) and post it to Finance Secretary, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY.

The talks will be in room 1004 Blackett, on the 10th floor of the Blackett lab (physics department). This is attached to mathematics but is best reached from Prince Consort Road: see the map.

Tea after the first lecture will be in the 8th floor common room, directly under 1004, two floors down.

Social programme Usually a pub in South Kensington. The standard one is the The Queen's Arms, 30 Queen's Gate Mews, London SW7 5QL.

When a COW meeting is planned, a copy of the announcement suitable for printing and displaying on a notice board is made available. This also carries abstracts.

Future meetings

• Details of COW activities are usually circulated by e-mail. UK mathematicians, including research students, interested in algebraic geometry in the wide sense may (and probably should) subscribe to the mailing lists. To do so, you go to
  http://listserv.csv.warwick.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/cowalggeom
  and follow the instructions there.
• The erstwhile European algebraic geometry network EAGER still exists in the form of a useful electronic mailing list called eager-gen, which you may wish to join.
• The London topology and geometry seminar also runs a mailing list. To join it, email "subscribe" to geometry-request@ic.ac.uk.
• A vital resource for all geometers is the e-print server arXiv. For algebraic geometry math.AG is the most important category but some other categories are also relevant.

• There is a Durham Symposium on birational geometry from Monday 2nd to Saturday 7th July 2012.
• At Warwick, there will be a school on derived categories and physics, Monday 9th to Saturday 14th July 2012.
• The EGA seminar, or Highland Cow, is a Scottish version of the COW, meeting in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
• A more local but even less specific seminar is the London Topology and Geometry Seminar, also known as G&T.
• The calf is a seminar organised by and for graduate students in geometry.

Previous meetings

• London, Thursday 13th October 2011
  2:00 Margarida Mendes Lopes (Lisbon): Curves on irregular surfaces
  3:30 Florian Block (Warwick): Universal polynomials for Severi degrees of toric surfaces
• Oxford, Thursday 1st December 2011
  1:30 Sara Pasquetti (London): Topological strings and dualities from M5 branes
  3:00 Kobi Kremnizer (Oxford): Uniformizing Bun(G) by the affine Grassmannian
  4:30 Al Kasprzyk (London): Generalised reflexive polygons and the number 12
• London, Thursday 26th January 2012
  2:00 Nikolai Tyurin (Dubna): Exotic Chekanov tori in toric symplectic varieties
  3:45 Miles Reid (Warwick): Structure theory for Gorenstein codimension 4
• Warwick, Thursday 23rd February 2012
  11:00 Artem Avilov (Moscow): Cubic surface over C(t) with maximal action of Galois group on its Picard group
  12:00 Kuzma Khrabrov (Moscow): Graded rings and Q-Fano threefolds with exotic Weil class group
  2:00 Constantin Shramov (Moscow): Jordan property for Cremona groups of low rank
  4:00 Andrey Trepalin (Moscow): On quotients of rational conic bundles
  5:30 Chris Brav (Oxford): Classical and derived monodromy of a quintic threefold

Historic COWs: 1995-96; 1996-97; 1997-98; 1998-99; 1999-2000; 2000-01; 2001-02; 2002-03; 2003-04; 2004-05; 2005-06; 2006-07; 2007-08; 2008-09; 2009-10; 2010-11.

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