The Student Working Seminar in Algebra and Geometry (aka SWAG) is a seminar organized and run by graduate students, for graduate students. The goal of the seminar is to provide graduate students with a space in which to share and discuss topics in Algebra and Geometry that they are interested and learning about. The emphasis of the seminar is in clarity and good understanding of the material, prioritizing them over speed or amount of material covered.

This semester we will be dividing SWAG into several local seminars, each of which will focus on a different topic. This intends to cater towards the wide variety of interests that the graduate students have had in the past, and that a single seminar was unable to satisfy. This semester the local seminars will be:

• Parabolic Geometry with local organizer David Sykes.
• Hyperbolic Geometry with local organizer Petr Naryshkin.
• Representations of Semisimple Lie Algebras with local organizer Arpan Pal.
• D-modules with local organizer Ola Sobieska.
• Hartshorne's Exercises with local organizer Byeongsu Yu.
• Local Cohomology with local organizer Thomas Yahl.

These local seminars will come together at a global seminar, where all the participants will interact. Starting the week of March 16, the local seminars will be asked to give a presentation in the global seminar introducing the topic they have been working on.

† The global seminar was canceled on March 16 due to COVID-19.

Jan 14

Byeongsu Yu, Organizational meeting.

Some of the past editions of the Student Working Seminar in Algebra and Geometry were:

• Fall 2019.
• Spring 2019.
• Fall 2018.
• Fall 2017.
• Fall 2016.