Speaker: Alok K. Maharana
Date: April 15, 2010
Affiliation: TIFR

Abstract: A $Q$-homology plane is by definition a smooth affine algebraic surface $X$ such that $H_i(X;Q)=(0)$ for $i>0$. We shall talk about the classification of smooth affine algebraic surfaces $z^n=f(x,y)$ which are $Q$-homology planes.