General Course Information, Hain's Notes, G&H Errors/Typos

Tentative Schedule

In the Read column below, G&H a.b refers to Chapter a, Section b in Griffthis and Harris.

Date	Topic	Read	Problem Set
01/23, M	Introduction	G&H 2.0,2.1	#1
01/25, W	Some key properties
01/30, M	Jacobian of a curve	G&H 2.2
02/01, W	Proof of Abel's Theorem
02/06, M	Jacobi Inversion
02/08, W	Riemann-Roch for a curve	G&H 2.3	#2
02/13, M	Castelnuvo bound
02/15, W	Branched covers
02/20, M	Riemann count
02/22, W	Curves of low genus/degree
02/27, M	Elliptic curves and moduli problem	Hain A,1,2	#3
03/01, W
03/06, W	Orbifolds	Hain 3
03/08, W	Modular forms	Hain 4
03/20, M	Relation with plane cubics	Hain 5	#4
03/22, W	Moduli space of elliptic curves
03/27, M	Blowups and blowdowns of surfaces	G&H 4.0,4.1
03/29, W	Castelnuovo-Enriques Criterion	G&H 4.0,4.1
04/03, M	Normalizations of curves on surfaces	pp396-397 pp498-510
04/05, W	Arithmetic and geometric genera
4/10, M	Rational maps on surfaces	pp489-498 pp510-512	#5
4/12, W	Rational ruled surfaces	G&H 4.3
04/17, M	Minimal rational surfaces
04/19, W	Detecting rational surfaces	G&H 4.4
04/24, M	Irrational ruled surfaces	G&H 4.5	#6
04/26, W
05/01, M	Other types of surfaces
05/03, W