Commutative algebra seminar
Speaker: Prof. R. V. Gurjar
Date: 16 Oct 2025
Day Thursday
Venue: Ramanujam Hall
Time 4-5 pm
Title: Resolution of singularities of algebraic or analytic varieties.
Abstract.
First I will show how to resolve curve singularities (this must be
well-known to many). Then discuss Jung-Hirzebruch argument to get the
equation of a surface in three variables in a very simple form, and then
resolve its singularities. This will complete the proof of resolution of
singularitiies of surfaces. Next I will discuss some easy but useful
results about resolution type results (resolution of indeterminacies,
principalization, general notion of resolution of singularities, and their
relations to each other).