Speaker: Richard Thomas Date: 10:30 17/02/2023 Title: Nodes and the Hodge conjecture Abstract: I'll summarise my old paper giving a simple inductive approach to the Hodge conjecture. The upshot is that -- given a middle dimensional (p,p) Hodge class -- instead of finding a codimension-p variety carrying it, we only need to find a codimension 1 hyperplane containing it.