Seminar in Real and Complex Geometry

Thursday, November 28, 2019, 16:00-18:00, Schreiber building, room 209




Meirav Topol (SCE)

Classification of algebraic curves and surfaces: topological methods and invariants


Abstract
             

The talk is focused on the topological methods to the classification of complex algebraic curves and surfaces and on the search of invariants of the classification. A special attention will be paid to the braid monodromy factorization algorithm, computation of fundamental groups, and degeneration of surfaces, which all will be illustrated by examples.