66734 - Further topics in geometry

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Mathematics (cod. 8208)

Learning outcomes

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

Course contents

 

Projective and affine curves. Properties of hypersurfaces. Introduction to birational geometry. Rationality problems.

Readings/Bibliography

M. Reid, Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry

Material posted on IOL

Teaching methods

 

Lectures from electronic tablet.

Assessment methods

 

Oral exam; homework problems to turn in before the exam.

Teaching tools

 E-learning platform IOL.

Office hours

See the website of Antonella Grassi