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MPS Conference on Higher Dimensional Geometry 2020 (Online)

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Due to circumstances, the MPS Conference on Higher Dimensional Geometry 2020: Rationality was held online.

Organizers:

  • Paolo Cascini, Imperial College London
  • Ivan Cheltsov, University of Edinburgh
  • James McKernan, UCSD
  • Chenyang Xu, MIT

Speakers:

  • Dan Abramovich
  • Caucher Birkar
  • Jérémy Blanc
  • Ivan Cheltsov
  • Robert Lazarsfeld
  • Emanuele Macrì
  • Alexander Perry
  • Giulia Saccà
  • Evgeny Shinder
  • Slava Shokurov
  • Burt Totaro
  • Yuri Tschinkel
  • Claire Voisin

A tentative schedule can be found at:
https://sites.google.com/view/simonsconferences/simons-foundation/rationality

July 27, 2020

Yuri Tschinkel – Equivariant birational types

July 27, 2020

Dan Abramovich – Resolution and logarithmic resolution using weighted blowings up

July 27, 2020

Relative MMP without Q-factoriality

July 28, 2020

Giulia Saccà – Birational geometry of the intermediate Jacobian fibration

July 28, 2020

Charlotte Ure – Brauer group of Elliptic Curves

July 28, 2020

Jihao Liu – Complements and ACC for minimal log discrepancies

July 28, 2020

Andrea Petracci – An obstructed K-polystable Fano 3-fold

July 28, 2020

Burt Totaro – K3 surfaces and high-dimensional Fano varieties

July 29, 2020

Caucher Birkar – On non-rationality of divisors on 3-folds Fano fibrations

July 29, 2020

Robert Lazarsfeld – Measures of irrationality for algebraic varieties

July 29, 2020

Vyacheslav Shokurov – (Upper) moduli part of adjunction

July 30, 2020

Jérémy Blanc – Quotients of groups of birational transformations

July 30, 2020

Elden Elmanto – An application of rationality to (higher) algebraic K-theory

July 30, 2020

Cesar Hilario – Counterexamples to Bertini’s theorem in characteristic p>0

July 30, 2020

Kai Huang – A valuative criterion for K-semistability of log Fano cone singularities

July 30, 2020

Yujie Luo – On boundedness of divisors computing minimal log discrepancies for surfaces

July 30, 2020

Evgeny Shinder – Birationality centers and Cremona groups

July 31, 2020

Alexander Perry – The integral Hodge conjecture for two-dimensional Calabi-Yau categories

July 31, 2020

Emanuele Macrì – Special surfaces on special cubic fourfolds

July 31, 2020

Claire Voisin – Decomposition of the diagonal

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