Time: Monday 13:30-15:30, Wednesday, 9:30-10:30.
Lecture Room: BURN 1205
Course syllabus: This is an introductory course in Algebraic
Geometry. It develops from scratch the theory of algebraic varieties over
algebraically closed fields, including morphisms, sheaves and cohomology.
The course presupposes basic commutative algebra. The topics to be studied
are: affine and projective algebraic varieties; regular functions and morphisms;
singularities, normalization and blow-up; sheaves, Cech co-homology and
the Riemann-Roch theorem for curves. The examples of curves, and Grassmannian
manifolds are studied in detail. The course consists of three weekly hours
(two meetings per week). It is given in the first term. The final grade
will be based on assignments and a take home exam.
References:
(1) Kempf, George R.: Algebraic varieties. London Mathematical
Society Lecture Note Series, 172.
(2) Hartshorne, Robin: Algebraic geometry. Graduate Texts in
Mathematics, No. 52. Springer-Verlag. (Main Text)
(3) Mumford, David: The red book of varieties and schemes. Lecture
Notes in Mathematics, 1358, Springer-Verlag.
(4) Shafarevich, Igor R.: Basic algebraic geometry. 1. Varieties
in projective space. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1994.
(5) Harris, J.: Algebraic Geometry: A First Course, Springer
Graduate Texts in Mathematics 133.
Course Structure: The Monday meeting will be a full 2 hour lecture.
The Wednesday meeting will early on in the semester be devoted to lectures
given by the students.
Course pre-requisites: General knowledge of algebra at the undergraduate
level (in particular, fields, algebraically closed fields, rings, prime
and maximal ideals etc.) and rudimentary topology (open and closed sets,
continuous functions, separation axioms, compact spaces -- all at a very
basic level). During the course the students will need to catch-up with
lots of algebra. Hand-out and references will be provided. It is recommended
that students taking this course take (or at least audit) Prof. Russell's
course "Higher Algebra I, 189-570A".
Course requirements:
Multilinear Algebra | Khanh Huynh | September 19 |
Direct and Projective Limits | Neil Kennedy | September 26 |
Groebner Bases I | Melisande Fortin-Boisvert | Ocotber 3 |
Groebner Bases II | Dimitry Zuchowski | October 10 |
Toric Varieties | Pavel Dimitrov | October 17 |
Projection from a Point | Benoit Arbour | October 24 |
Flag Varieties | Dmitry Chtcherbine | October 31 |
Sheaves on Topological Spaces | Carlos Philips | November 14 |
Algebraic Groups I | Maxim Samsonov | November 21 |
Algebraic Groups II | Roman Tymkiv | November 28 |
Galois Theory for Curves | Matthew Greenberg | December 5 |
Goppa Codes | Sebastien Loisel | December 17 |
Points on Curves over Finite Fields | Gabriel Chenevert | December 17 |
The Hilbert Polynomial | Vasilisa Chramtchenko | December 17 |
Integral Morphisms and Normalization | Alexandru Stanculescu | December 17 |
Maple/Macaulay examples.
There is a graduate seminar accompanying this course, held jointly with
Prof. Darmon's course on Automorphic forms. In the seminar we shall study
parts of the book: O. Forster/Lectures on Riemann Surfaces.GTM 81.
Lectures in the Seminar:
Matthew Greenberg: Holomorphic functions on a Riemann surface.
Melisande Fortin-Boisvert: The degree of a morphism.
Benoit Arbour: Extending unramified coverings of punctured Riemann
surfaces.
Vasillisa Chramtchenko: Linear differential equations on a Riemann
surface I.
Maxim Samsonov: Linear differential equations on a Riemann surface
II.
Gabriel Chenevert: Linear differential equations on a Riemann surface
III.
Marc-Hubert Nicole: Triviality of vector bundles over an a non-compact
Riemann surface.
Final Projects (all copyrights belong to the authors) :
Gabriel Chenevert: The
Riemann-Hilbert Problem.
Matthew Greenberg:
Melisande Fortin-Boisvert:
Benoit Arbour:
Vasillisa Chramtchenko:
Maxim Samsonov:
Marc-Hubert Nicole: