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Are there any good video lectures for studying Algebraic geometry ?

flag	asked Oct 13 2011 at 17:42 john 486●4●10

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Related: mathoverflow.net/questions/54430/… At least one answer also links to a algebraic geometry lecture. – Martin Brandenburg Oct 13 2011 at 17:45

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1) What flavor of algebraic geometry? 2) How much depth do you need? – Thierry Zell Oct 13 2011 at 18:11

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Great question! I would love to know as many answers as possible to it – aglearner Oct 13 2011 at 21:29

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@Martin: Quite right. I came here to post the link to Miles Reid's lectures warwick.ac.uk/staff/Miles.Reid/AGvid.html but I see it's already there. – Mark Grant Oct 14 2011 at 6:51

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this might be good newton.ac.uk/programmes/MOS/seminars/index.html – Lei Oct 14 2011 at 15:58

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Julien Puydt · Answer 1 · 2011-10-13 18:15:39Z UTC

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You haven't been very precise about what you want ; let me still suggest the "video homepage" of the IHES, where you'll find quality videos about various aspects of algebraic geometry.

answered Oct 13 2011 at 18:15

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Leandro Vendramin · Answer 2 · 2011-12-31 16:01:55Z UTC

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Some graduate short-courses in FCEyN, UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina:

J. Harris, Intersection Theory
R. Hartshorne, Introduction to Deformation Theory
D. Maclagan, Introduction to Tropical Algebraic Geometry
P. Beelen, Algebraic Geometric Codes

Here are the links to the videos of these 4 lectures.

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I was at Harris' lectures and can recommend them for anyone interested in an introduction to intersection theory. They are very motivated, example driven, and simply outstanding. – Gunnar Magnusson Dec 31 2011 at 22:30

Harris' lectures are really great indeed... – aglearner Apr 25 2012 at 14:01

To be cont'd · Answer 3 · 2011-10-16 08:33:12Z UTC

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Among the long list of lectures recorded every year in ICTP, here are 40 lectures each year by Lothar Goettsche on Algebraic Geometry:

2007/08 Algebraic Geometry Course in Mathematics

2008/09 Algebraic Geometry Course in Mathematics

2009/10 Algebraic Geometry Course in Mathematics

2010/11 Algebraic Geometry Course in Mathematics

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I tried to watch the video. The sound is good, but the picture is terrible, completely impossible to see what is written on the board. Can you really see what is in this lecture? (maybe I am missing something, but I tried all three formats proposed on the website) – aglearner Oct 16 2011 at 20:24

@aglearner: A high-res zoom can be seen on the right of the low-res video. It is updated every few seconds. – Martin Brandenburg Oct 17 2011 at 6:25

@aglearner, it is recommended that you watch the videos on-line(with out downloading) as a high-res picture of the board is shot every 15 seconds and synchronized with the lecture video. – To be cont'd Oct 18 2011 at 6:40

Dmitri · Answer 4 · 2011-10-16 23:22:39Z UTC

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The following lectures by Caucher Birkar provide a great introduction to birational geometry and its most recent developments:

http://www.sciencesmath-paris.fr/index.php?page=118&lien=22&lang=en

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Leandro Vendramin · Answer 5 · 2012-02-01 12:26:44Z UTC

This post is to link some videos from IMPA, Brazil.

Colóquio Brasileiro de Matemática:

IMPA 50 Anos:

Abel's theorem in its classical, modern and post-modern forms, Phillip Griffiths

The webpage of the Brazil-France School and Workshop on Algebraic Geometry contains links to the following videos:

Mini-courses:

Introduction to algebraic groups, Bertrand Rémy
Frobenius splitting, Stéphane Druel
Rational curves on algebraic varieties, Carolina Araujo
Introduction to Berkovich geometry, Amaury Thuillier
Rational points and rational curves, Emmanuel Peyre
Geometric Invariant Theory, Eduardo Esteves

Talks:

Bergman kernels and applications, Mihai Paun
Exponential rarefaction of real curves with many components, Jean-Yves Welschinger
Berkovich geometry and Satake compactifications, Bertrand Rémy
Counting, Tightness and (non arch.) Symmetric spaces, Rodolphe Richard
On recursive towers of curves over finite fields, Arnaldo Garcia

aglearner · Answer 6 · 2012-04-25 14:06:40Z UTC

If you understand Russian, then you can listen to lectures of Orlov and Kuznetsov that are given here:

http://erb-files.narod.ru/

Orlov is giving lectures on Hartschorn's level, these are very good lectures. I hope very much that your question will get more answers.

Added. It turns out that on the same website there is a course called "Algebra 3, 2010", it is by Loktev. This course can be seen as an introductory course to algebraic geometry (treating Bezout's theorem, Nullstellensatz and many other things). I find this course really well done and very well motivated. (of course this is in Russian).

Ongaro Nyang' · Answer 7 · 2011-10-25 12:43:08Z UTC

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David Ben-Zvi’s lectures on representation theory and topological field theory:

http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/langlands_m08/. On the same line see the seminar lectures by John Baez and James Dolan http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/qg-fall2007/

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Leandro Vendramin · Answer 8 · 2012-02-11 16:11:00Z UTC

The conference Algebraic Geometry Northeastern Series (AGNES), Stony Brook 2011.

These videos are included:

Ehsan M. Kermani · Answer 9 · 2012-02-11 18:57:54Z UTC

If you look through the answers given in Martin Brandenburg's comment, someone's linked to MSRI. You may find more videos, by a quick search. What I found some months ago very informative and useful is, The Classical Algebraic Geometry Today, MSRI. The discussed subjects are so diverse to fill almost everyone's interests. Also, the sound and picture qualities are solid.

mathphysicist · Answer 10 · 2012-03-09 08:44:29Z UTC

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There are also three nice videos of lectures by Ugo Bruzzo entitled Algebraic geometry for physicists.

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mathphysicist
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is any knowledge of physics is required for understanding these lectures? – john Apr 1 2012 at 16:28

Anonymous · Answer 11 · 2012-03-09 08:34:23Z UTC

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does anyone know how to download Miles Reid Video lectures from vod.mathnet? no mms downloader seems to work for me. Any successful attempts?

answered Mar 9 2012 at 8:34

Anonymous
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	You can use mplayer with the option -dumpstream. Here is an example to download one of the videos linked here: mplayer -dumpstream strato.impa.br/videos/27_CBM/27CBM_300709_03.avi (mplayer will save the video in the file stream.dump). – Leandro Vendramin Mar 18 2012 at 21:44
	@Anonymous, open the .asx file with wordpad and locate a .wmv url. Then download this file with your favourite download manager if it doesn't time out. – TZE Apr 8 2012 at 12:34

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