On Nov. 4 and 5, Wash U hosted the Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (WAGS), a twice-yearly meeting of algebraic geometers in the western half of the United States and Canada. WashU event organizers — including Roya Beheshti Zavareh, Matthew Kerr and Wanlin Li, in Arts & Sciences — believe this was the largest conference organized by the math department in recent years, with approximately 150 participants. The event featured speakers on topics including: measures of association between algebraic varieties; Arakelov invariants and non-archimedean geometry; parahoric Bruhat-tits from galois covers; the period-index conjecture for abelian threefolds; canonical representations of surface groups; the singularities of the minimal model program in positive characteristics; and rationality criteria for cubic hypersurfaces.
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