Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Higher Dimensional Complex Geometry

4 Feb--19 Jul 2002

Organisers: Dr A Corti (Cambridge), Dr M Gross (Warwick), Professor M Reid (Warwick)

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

A Newton Institute Workshop

HDG EuroConference

23 Jun - 29 Jun 2002

Timetable:

List of participants


Monday 24 June

08.30-09.50 Registration

09.50-10.00 Welcome by Director

10.00-11.00 Y Kawamata (Tokyo)

Minimal models and derived categories

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.30 T Bridgeland (Edinburgh)

$\pi$-stability and t-structures on K3 surfaces

12.30-13.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.00 A Caldararu (UMass)

On an example of Vafa and Witten,
or how to get rid of discrete torsion  More info

15.00-15.30 Tea

15.30-16.30 C Voisin (Paris 6, Jussieu)

The generic Green conjecture for curves of even genus on a K3 surface

16.30-17.30 K Wendland (North Carolina)

Aspects of mirror symmetry on K3 surfaces

17.30-18.30 Welcome: Wine Reception at the Newton Institute

18.45-19.30 Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents only)


Tuesday 25 June

09.00-10.00 R Lazarsfeld (Michigan)

Some local applications of multiplier ideals

10.00-11.00 P Hacking (Michigan)

Compact moduli of plane curves

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.30 M Brion (Grenoble)

Stable reductive varieties (joint with Valery Alexeev)

12.30-13.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.00 B Siebert (Bochum)

Affine manifolds and mirror symmetry

15.00-15.30 Tea

15.30-16.30 F Campana (Nancy)

Special varieties and classification theory  More info

18.45-19.30 Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents only)

20.15-20.45 S Te'rouanne

Graduate seminar at Wolfson Court - Fletcher Moulton Room
D$^G$(C) for C a curve and G a finite group

20.45-21.15 A Degeratu

Graduate seminar at Wolfson Court - Fletcher Moulton Room
Topology of Crepant Resolution

21.35-22.00 N Budur

Graduate seminar at Wolfson Court - Fletcher Moulton Room
Multiplier ideals and Hodge spectrum


Wednesday 26 June

09.00-10.00 B Fantechi (Udine)

Orbifold cohomology and orbifold Chow ring

10.00-11.00 F Loeser (ENS, Paris)

Birational geometry of degenerations and Serre's invariant

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.30 B van Geemen (Pavia)

Quaternionic Prym varieties and Hodge classes

12.30-13.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.00 C Maclean (Paris)

The Noether-Lefschetz locus -- a second order invariant

15.00-15.30 Tea

18.45-19.30 Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents only)

20.15- . Graduate evening party at Wolfson Court - Sheila Gillies Room


Thursday 27 June

09.00-10.00 M Mella (Ferrara)

The importance of being Q-factorial

10.00-11.00 J Kolla'r (Princeton)

Rationally connected varieties

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.30 F Ambro (Cambridge)

On Shokurov's pl-flips

12.30-13.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.00 M Reid (Warwick)

Unprojections

15.00-15.30 Tea

15.30-16.30 Z Ran (UC Riverside)

Generic projections

16.30-17.30 NI Shepherd-Barron (Cambridge)

Smoothness of slightly ramified deformations via tangent lifting

20.00- . Conference Dinner - Christ's College


Friday 28 June

10.00-11.00 F Schreyer (Saarbru"cken)

Real forms of $V_{22}$ Fano 3-folds

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.30 G Farkas (Michigan)

Stable bundles, difference varieties and divisors on moduli spaces
of curves  More info

12.30-13.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.00 M Popa (Harvard)

Regularity on abelian varieties

15.00-15.30 Tea

15.30-16.30 S Mukai (RIMS)

Invariant ring and birational geometry
related with the Verlinde formula

18.45-19.30 Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents only)




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