SISSA Algebraic Geometry Seminar
The schedule of the SISSA Algebraic Geometry Seminar is, since October 2025, here.
In the fall of the academic year 2026-27, we run a seminar on Motivic Integration. Here is the program. We meet in Room 134 on Mondays at 16:00.
| Talk | Speaker | Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jon Mikoš | 26/10/26 | Jet schemes and arc spaces |
| 2 | Pietro Toscano | 9/11/26 | Grothendieck rings, cylinders, and motivic measure |
| 3 | Federico Candeletti | 16/11/26 | Measurable sets, measurable functions, and integration |
| 4 | Ian Selvaggi | 23/11/26 | The birational transformation rule and Kontsevich's theorem |
| 5 | Giuseppe Aristodemo | 30/11/26 | Naive and monodromic motivic zeta functions |
| 6 | Elena Andreoletti | 14/12/26 | Rationality of zeta functions |
| 7 | Gabriele Reali | 21/12/26 | Worked out example: the cusp y2 − x3 |
| 8 | Marco Miceli | 18/1/2027 | Motivic nearby fibres, vanishing cycles, and monodromy |
| 9 | Anna Sicolo | 25/1/2027 | Motivic Thom–Sebastiani |
| 10 | Nicolò Bignami | 1/2/2027 | A glimpse on the Monodromy Conjecture |
Past SISSA Algebraic Geometry Seminars
• Reading seminar on the moduli space of stable curves (Spring 2026).• Reading seminar on semiorthogonal decompositions (Fall 2025).
• Reading seminar on Complex analytic methods-Stacks (Spring 2025).
• Reading seminar on toric varieties (Fall 2024).
• Reading seminar on Hilbert schemes (Spring 2024).
• Reading seminar on deformation Theory (Fall 2023).
• Reading seminar on geometric invariant theory (Spring 2023).
• Reading seminar on Bridgeland stability conditions (Fall 2022).
• UNITS-SISSA Algebraic Geometry seminar (2020–2021).