96733 - Algebraic Curves and Surfaces

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Mathematics (cod. 8010)

    Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Mathematics (cod. 5827)

Learning outcomes

The goal of the course is to provide a robust introduction to techniques, problems and applications in algebraic geometry.


Course contents

Introduction to affine and projetice curves and surfaces, as abstract algebraic varieties and their properties.

Ideals, varieties, ring of functions, field of functions. Examples. Maps, Morphisms. Abstract varieties. Weighted projective spaces and other examples. Singular and non singular varities. Dimensions. Quotients. Volume forms. The canonical divisor. Adjunction formula. Divisors, linear systems. Examples and applications. Birationality problems; Rationality questions.


The courses Curves and Surfaces and Projective Geometry can be taken in the same year or in different years, in any sequence. The courses do not overlap, rather, they complement each other; the syllabi wiil be coordinated.


Readings/Bibliography

M. Reid, Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry

Other materials and papers posted on Virtuale

Teaching methods

Blackboards and digital presentations.

Assessment methods

Oral Exam

Teaching tools

 

Available on Virtuale.

 

The course takes part in the University of Bologna Project of Teaching Innovation

Office hours

See the website of Antonella Grassi