Algebraic Geometry and Topology RTG



Award Abstract NSF Award Undergraduate Undergraduate Summer Courses Course on Modern Mathematics Independent Research Experience Graduate Fellowships Advanced Summer Mini-courses Student Algebraic Geometry Seminars Student Topology Seminar Postdoctoral Fellowships RTG Postdoc Seminar Other Activities RTG Seminar Algebraic Geometry Seminar Max Dehn Seminar Commutative Algebra Seminar Wasatch Topology Conference Western Algebraic Geometry Seminar Graduate Student Bootcamp in Algebraic Geometry 2015 AMS Summer Research Institute in Algebraic Geometry 2015 People Undergraduate Students Graduate Fellows Postdoctoral Fellows Faculty Office Assistance		Undergraduate Summer Courses The summer courses are a unique opportunity for students throughout the country to take a course from a top researcher in their respective field. These courses are motivated by the sad fact that the undergraduate curriculum at most major universities contains very little of "modern" (say 20th century) mathematics. These courses will bridge the gap between these graduate courses and standard undergraduate courses where the mathematics covered is more concrete but usually over 100 years old. We have chosen topics that rarely, if ever, appear in the undergraduate curriculum. A set of lecture notes will be produced for each course so that they can be repeated at other institutions. Summer 2014 Train Tracks, Diffeomorphisms of Surfaces and Automorphisms of Free Groups Instructor: Mladen Bestvina Summer 2016 Birational Geometry of Complex Surfaces Instructor: Christopher Hacon



National Science Foundation Department of Mathematics College of Science