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Algebraic Surfaces
Spring 201


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Topics covered

The first goal is to cover the topics in Beauville's book. For a detailed list of topics, see the table of contents of the book. Here is a rough list: the Picard group, the Neron-Severi group, blowing up a point and birational maps, ruled surfaces, rational surfaces, Kodaira dimension, K3 surfaces, Enriques surfaces, abelian surfaces, elliptic surfaces, surfaces of general type.

After working through Beauville's book, we will probably have some time left over in the course for special topics.