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Back to Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Spring 2026

Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Date: Thursday, Feb 5, 2026

Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Location: LCB 215

Thursday


Aaron Bertram

Utah

Title

Enriching Reider's Theorem for Surfaces with Stability Conditions

Abstract

Reider’s Theorem is a remarkably precise criterion for very ampleness of line bundles of the form K_S + D on an algebraic surface. By using Bridgeland stability conditions and various theorems about the moduli spaces of stable objects, we can extract information about the birational geometry of the blow-up of the projective space |K_S + D|^vee along the surface, analogous to results of Thaddeus in the curve case. This is part of a program that I am working on with my graduate students in Utah and Macri’s laboratory in Paris.

Algebraic Geometry

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