3264 and all that

Resources

We are reading 3264 and all that by David Eisenbud and Joe Harris. If you’d like to be kept updated, please join the mailing list.

Schedule

We are meeting on Fridays from 5-6 PM.

Week 1 (2/10) John Cobb 1.2 and 1.3.1-1.3.5 The Chow ring (16 pages)
Week 2 (2/17) Kevin Dao 1.3.6-1.4 Functoriality, transversality, canonical classes (14 pages)
Week 3 (2/24) Alejo Salvatore 2.1.1-2.1.7 Computing examples (11 pages)
Week 4 (3/3) John Cobb 2.1.9-2.3 Computing more examples (13 pages)
Week 5 (3/10) John Cobb 2.4-2.5 Curves on Surfaces (10 pages)
Week 6 (3/24) TBA 3.1-3.2 Intro to Grassmannians (17 pages)
Week 7 (3/31) TBA 3.3-3.4 $$\mathbb{G}(1,3)$$ (13 pages)
Week 8 (3/7) TBA 3.5-3.6 Lines and surfaces in $$\mathbb{P}^3$$ (18 pages)
Week 9 (3/21) TBA Ch. 4 Generalizing to all Grassmannians (34 pages)
Week 10 (3/28) TBA Ch. 5 Chern Classes (28 pages)
Week 11 (3/5) TBA 6.1-6.3 Fano and Hilbert Schemes (15)

Meeting Structure

While reading, write any questions you have and bring them. Each week the speaker will be giving a ~15 minute talk summarizing the reading that week (maybe bullet-point style), skipping proofs and focusing on how to use the theorems and objects. Note that being the speaker does not mean you are expected to know everything – You can have lots of questions too. After, we can all discuss questions we had on the reading.