[geometry-ml:03264] MS seminar at Kavli IPMU -- Patricio Gallardo and Sara Muhvic -- Mar 6, 2018

[Todor Milanov]

Dear all,

I would like to announce the following 2 Mathematics and String theory seminars at Kavli IPMU. 

1) Speaker: Patricio Gallardo (U of Washington)
Date:	Tue, Mar 06, 2018, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Title:	On double covers and their degenerations

Abstract:  We discuss different compactifications of the moduli space of smooth plane curves, explicit descriptions of the singular objects they parametrize, and applications for understanding the degenerations of double covers branching along them.

2) Speaker: Sara Muhvic	(Warwick U)
Date:	Tue, Mar 06, 2018, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

Title: G-Hilb and crepant resolutions of certain abelian orbifolds in dimension 4

Abstract: Let G \subset Sl(4,\CC) be a maximal diagonal subgroup of exponent r. In this talk, I will describe the G-Hilbert scheme G-Hilb(C4) through its toric fan and show how it can be used to construct "special" crepant resolutions of the quotient variety \CC^4/ G. I will also discuss whether these crepant resolutions could be interpreted as the moduli spaces \mathcal{M}_\theta of \theta-stable G-constellations.

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Todor Eliseev Milanov
Associate Professor 
Kavli IPMU,  Japan

todor.milanov ＠ ipmu.jp