Math 6422

Lectures. 

Skiles 154, Tuesday and Thursday at 3-4:15pm. 

Office hours. 

Skiles 017, Thursday at 2pm or by appointment. 

Grading.

The final grade will be determined via homework, student lectures (here is a list of suggested topics), and a written report. Update: due to the novel coronavirus, the students lectures are cancelled. 

Homework. 

There will be an assignment roughly every two weeks to be submitted in class. The lowest grade will be dropped. 

• • Assignment 6. Solution.

  • Assignment 5. Solution.

  • Assignment 4. Solution.

  • Assignment 3. Solution.

  • Assignment 2. Solution.

  • Assignment 1. Solution.

Lecture notes.

Link. (Courtesy of Jaewoo Jung)

Recommended textbooks.

• • Andreas Gathmann -  Algebraic geometry.

  • ACGH - Geometry of algebraic curves. 

  • Renzo Cavalieri - Moduli Spaces of Pointed Rational Curves.

  • Jenia Tevelev - Moduli Spaces and Invariant Theory.

  • Renzo Cavalieri and Eric Miles - Riemann surfaces and algebraic curves.

  • Joachim Kock and Israel Vainsencher - An Invitation to Quantum Cohomology.

  • And of course, Hartshorne.