Math 265, Singularities and Hodge Theory

Instructor: Mihnea Popa

Mihnea Popa
Office: SC 537
Tel: 617-495-4825
email: mpopa@math.harvard.edu
  • Meeting times: MW 12-1.15 in SC Hall E (basement); first meeting Sept.4
  • Office hours: Wednesday 2-3, and by appointment
Brief course description: Hodge theory for smooth projective varieties over the complex numbers is a classical subject. It has been extended over the years in various ways to the setting of singular varieties. This course will (roughly) be devoted to one such extension, namely the theory of the Deligne-Du Bois complex, also known as the filtered De Rham complex. The emphasis will be on applications to birational geometry and to the theory of singularities. In particular it will discuss rational and Du Bois singularities, and recently introduced refinements of these notions.
Prerequisites: This is a topics course that aims to eventually discuss current research, and will assume advanced knowledge of algebraic geometry, Hodge theory for smooth projective varieties, and modern homological algebra.