Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Colleen Robles
IAS/Texas A&M
Extremal degenerations of Hodge structure
Abstract: I will describe a program to formulate and answer in a well-posed manner the question: what are the extremal degenerations of a smooth variety? That is, what is the `least singular' variety X can degenerate to? and what is the `most singular' variety X can degenerate to? These and related questions are being investigated, in various subsets of collaboration, by Mark Green, Phillip Griffiths, Matt Kerr, Greg Pearlstein and myself.
Wednesday March 5, 2014 at 3:00 PM in SEO 636