Interpolation and the Maximal Rank Conjecture

Seminar: 
Algebraic and Tropical Geometry
Event time: 
Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
LOM 214
Speaker: 
Eric Larson
Speaker affiliation: 
Harvard University
Event description: 

The first part of this talk will address the following question: When does there exist a curve of given degree $d$ and genus $g$, passing through $n$ general points $p_1$, $p_2$, …, $p_n$ in $bP/b^r$? I will then discuss the application of this to the maximal rank conjecture, discussing in particular the case of quadrics.