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Graduate Student Seminar | Daniel Mallory (Northwestern University)

Friday, January 30, 2026 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM CT
Lunt Hall, 105, 2033 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Title: Snakes on a Plane

Abstract: We call two algebraic varieties that are "mostly the same" (in some precise sense) birational. One of the simplest ways two varieties can be birational is when one variety is the so-called "blow-up at a point" of the other variety. We'll explore these blow-ups in some very simple cases, with the hope to say something about the automorphisms of the field of complex rational functions (in 2 variables) and something about the classification of complex algebraic surfaces.

Note: The talk will start at 4:10 pm

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  • Faculty/Staff
  • Student
  • Public
  • Post Docs/Docs
  • Graduate Students

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