Graduate Student Colloquium
Xudong Zheng
UIC
An Invitation to Derived Categories
Abstract: Due to results of Mukai, Bondal, Orlov, Bridgeland, and Kawamata, among others, the derived category (of coherent sheaves on a smooth projective variety) turns out to be a very useful invariant of a variety. In this talk, I will briefly introduce the framework of this invariant.
This talk is aimed at graduate students of all levels. I will work through some basics of algebraic geometry, line bundles, sheaves and their cohomology in the first half of the talk. No technical knowledge of algebraic geometry is expected.
Monday October 22, 2012 at 4:15 PM in SEO 636