The Nash problem on families of arcs

Seminar: 
Algebraic and Tropical Geometry
Event time: 
Thursday, April 17, 2014 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Tommaso de Fernex
Speaker affiliation: 
Utah
Event description: 

I will talk about recent progress toward the understanding of the image of the Nash map which associates a divisorial valuation to every maximal irreducible family of arcs through the singular locus of an algebraic variety. The talk is based on joint work with Roi Docampo.