MATHEMATICS 510-Q1, RIEMANN SURFACES AND ALGEBRAIC CURVES, FALL 2025
Instructor: Sheldon Katz
Office and Hours: 304D Harker Hall, Mondays 2-3, Thursdays 1-2,
or by
appointment.
Phone/email: 265-6258, katzs AT illinois.edu
Time and location:11:00-12:15 TH, David Kinley Hall 212/Altgeld Hall 345. See details below
Text:Algebraic Curves and Riemann Surfaces, by Rick Miranda,
and textbook errata
Course Syllabus is here.
Location of classes:
- All classes will be held in Altgeld Hall 345 until further notice.
Homework:
- Homework 1 due Thursday, September 4.
- Homework 2 due Tuesday, September 16.
- Homework 3 due Thursday, September 25.
- Homework 4 due Thursday, October 9 (Due date extended from originally announced due date, because of cancelled class).
- Homework 5 due Tuesday, October 21.
- Homework 6 due Thursday, October 30.
- Homework 7 due Tuesday, November 11.
- Homework 8 due Thursday, November 20.
- Homework 9 due Tuesday, December 9.
Notes:
- To leave time for the grader to grade, late homework will not be accepted for Homework 9 after noon on Friday, December 12.
- If you choose to email your homework directly to the grader, please put your name on your homework and use the following format in the subject line of your email message to help keep it from getting buried in the grader's inbox : "MATH510 Homework N YourName" where N=1,2,3,... is the number of the homework assignment, and YourName is a placeholder for your name, of course.
Seminars and other activities of interest
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Tuesdays at 3pm (beginning September 2). If you would like to subscribe to the seminar mailing list (which will also be used for other algebraic geometry activities), please follow the instructions, using the list name "ag" (without quotes).
- Graduate Student Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra Seminar, Wednesdays at 3pm in Altgeld Hall 241. Organizer: Zijing Ye.
- Algebraic Geometry Preprint Seminar, Tuesdays at 2pm. In this seminar, graduate students and postdocs are encouraged to volunteer to give a talk on a recent preprint (last 2 years) for which they are not an author.
- Algebra-Geometry-Combinatorics (AGC) Seminar, Thursdays 3:00-3:50, 345 Altgeld