Conference on Birational Geometry

Program Committee

• Ivan Cheltsov
• Alena Pirutka
• Yuri Tschinkel

For Ivan Cheltsov’s page on the conference, please click here.
 

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Participants

• Nicolas Addington
• Valery Alexeev
• Florin Ambro
• Asher Auel
• Caucher Birkar
• Harold Blum
• Fedor Bogomolov
• Christian Bohning
• Alexander Borisov
• Elena Bunkova
• Paolo Cascini
• Francois Charles
• Giulio Codogni
• Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène
• Omprokash Das
• Will Donovan
• Takeru Fukuoka
• Changho Han
• Brendan Hassett
• Liana Heuberger
• Ljudmila Kamenova
• Ludmil Katzarkov
• Kristina Kubiliute
• János Kollár
• Yuchen Liu
• Jihao Liu
• Cristian Minoccheri
• Shigefumi Mori
• Jihun Park
• Dmitry Sakovich
• Akash Sengupta
• Luca Schaffler
• Evgeny Shinder
• Slava Shokurov
• Costya Shramov
• Arie Stern
• Charles Stibitz
• Dmitry Sustretov
• Fumiaki Suzuki
• Roberto Svaldi
• Jenia Tevelev
• Burt Totaro
• Christian Urech
• Joe Waldron
• Chuanhao Wei
• Chenyang Xu
• Ruijie Yang
• Egor Yasinsky
• Fei Ye
• Xudong Zheng
• Ziwen Zhu
• Susanna Zimmermann

Agenda & Slides

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MONDAY, AUGUST 21

1. Caucher Birkar: Recent Progress in Birational Geometry (PDF)
2. Valery Alexeev: Involution Pairs
3. János Kollár: Moduli of Varieties of General Type (PDF)
4. Solar Eclipse Viewing on Simons Foundation Rooftop
5. Joe Waldron: Singularities of General Fibres and the LMMP

TUESDAY, AUGUST 22

1. Shigefumi Mori: Extremal Contractions of Dimension Three with Fiber Dimension 1
2. Slava Shokurov a-Invariant Versus ?-Invariant
3. Liana Heuberger: Fano Fourfolds with Small Invariants
4. Paolo Cascini: Relative Semi-Ampleness in Positive Characteristic
5. Florin Ambro: Weakly Canonical Varieties

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23

1. Ludmil Katzarkov: Differential Equations and Categories (PDF)
2. Nicolas Addington: Special Cubic 4-Folds and Apolarity
3. Evegeny Shinder: Degeneration of Stable Rationality via the Motivic Nearby Fiber
4. Chenyang Xu: Volume and Stability of Singularities (PDF)
5. Jenia Tevelev: Derived Category Moduli of Pointed Curves

THURSDAY, AUGUST 24

1. Brendan Hassett: Rationality in Families
2. Jihun Park: Asymptotic Invariants and K-Stability of Fano Varieties
3. Asher Auel: Serge Fourfold and Sextic Del Pezzo Fibrations
4. Costya Shramov: Finite Groups of Birational Automorphisms
5. Burt Totaro: Hodge Theory and Representation Theory in Characteristic P

FRIDAY, AUGUST 25

1. Yuri Tschinkel: Homomorphisms of Multiplicative Groups of Fields Preserving Algebraic Dependence (PDF)
2. François Charles: Remarks on Arithmetic Ampleness
3. Christian Boehning: Brauer Groups of Conic Bundles in Characteristic Two and Stable Rationality
4. Alena Pirutka: Families of Cubic Threefolds and Integral Hodge Conjecture
5. Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène: Recent Progress on the Lack of Stable Rationality