Colleen Robles : Extremal degenerations of Hodge structure

Posted by Izzet Coskun , part of the Algebraic Geometry Seminar.

At

March 5, 2014, 3 p.m.

In

SEO 636

Abstract

I will describe a program to formulate and answer in a well-posed manner the question: what are the extremal degenerations of a smooth variety? That is, what is the `least singular' variety X can degenerate to? and what is the `most singular' variety X can degenerate to? These and related questions are being investigated, in various subsets of collaboration, by Mark Green, Phillip Griffiths, Matt Kerr, Greg Pearlstein and myself.