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Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Fall 2026

Regular Day: Tuesday

Regular Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Regular Location: LCB 215


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August 25


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September 1

Yuchen Liu
Northwestern University

The notion of special valuations, i.e. finitely generated valuations inducing klt degenerations of Fano varieties, plays an important role in the recent study of K-stability and moduli of Fano varieties. Given an affine log Calabi-Yau variety $U$, we show that its special skeleton, namely the space of special valuations in the dual complex of $U$, is independent of the choice of its Fano compactifications. Consequently, the special skeleton of $U$ is invariant under the action of $\text{Aut}(U)$. As an example, when $U$ is the complement of a Markov cubic surface in the affine three-space, we show that the action of three Vieta involutions on the special skeleton exhibits a surprising connection with dynamics on the hyperbolic plane.
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September 22

Jonathon Fleck
University of Utah

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September 29

Fabio Bernasconi
Sapienza University of Rome

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October 20

Ying Wang
University of Michigan

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November 3

Roi Docampo
University of Oklahoma

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November 10

Franco Rota
Université Paris-Saclay

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