Algebraic Geometry Learning Seminar

Nickolas Rollick, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Categorizing schemes in the wild"

Last time, we laid the groundwork necessary to make sense of the category of schemes.  This week, we get a feel for this category via some examples and structural facts.  In particular, we will learn what the final object is, construct non-trivial morphisms from a one-point scheme to itself, and look at the seemingly odd notion of scheme-valued points of a scheme.  It's truly a wild world these schemes live in...

MC 5403