Date & Time: Wednesday, April 27, 2016, 16:00-17:00.
Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Speaker: Souvik Goswami, School of Mathematics, TIFR Bombay
Title: Algebraic cycles
Abstract: Algebraic cycles form the core of modern algebraic geometry, where subvarieties of an algebraic variety are treated as free abelian groups. I will explain the basic notion of algebraic cycles, and a few techniques to detect non-zero cycles.