Course details
Semester
- Spring 2025
- Monday, January 27th to Friday, April 4th
Hours
- Live lecture hours
- 20
- Recorded lecture hours
- 0
- Total advised study hours
- 80
Timetable
- Mondays
- 14:05 - 14:55 (UK)
- Mondays
- 15:05 - 15:55 (UK)
Course forum
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Description
Prerequisites
Syllabus
- Affine, projective and quasiprojective varieties.
- Rational, birational and regular maps.
- Dimension. Singular and non-singular points. Tangent space.
- Divisors and differential forms. Riemann-Roch Theorem for curves.
- Blow-ups and intersection theory for smooth complex surfaces (time permitting).
Lecturer
-
Jesus Martinez Garcia
- University
- University of Essex
Bibliography
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Assessment
The assessment for this course will be released on Tuesday 22nd April 2025 at 00:00 and is due in before Friday 2nd May 2025 at 11:00.
Assessment for all MAGIC courses is via take-home exam which will be made available at the release date (the start of the exam period).
You will need to upload a PDF file with your own attempted solutions by the due date (the end of the exam period).
If you have kept up-to-date with the course, the expectation is it should take at most 3 hours’ work to attain the pass mark, which is 50%.
Please note that you are not registered for assessment on this course.
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