INVESTIGADORES
DICKENSTEIN Alicia Marcela
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
A-discriminants
Autor/es:
A. DICKENSTEIN
Lugar:
Coventry, Inglaterra
Reunión:
Jornada; COW (Cambridge, Oxford, Warwick) Algebraic Geometry Seminar; 2010
Institución organizadora:
Cambridge, Oxford & Warwick Universities
Resumen:
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