Mon 21st-Fri 25th Jul 2008
WAG Concluding Conference

Confirmed participants include

Gavin Brown, Mirel Caibar, Alessio Corti, Alastair Craw, Mark Gross, ITO
Yukari, Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros, KAWAMATA Yujiro, Vlad Lazic, Cristina
Lopez, Margarida Mendes Lopes, MIYAOKA Yoichi, Yuri Prokhorov, Miles
Reid, Greg Sankaran, Mathias Schulze, SUZUKI Kaori, Ravi Vakil, Michael
Wemyss,

Graduate students
Stephen Coughlan, Sarah Davis, Umar Hayat, Sohail Iqbal, Alvaro Nolla,
Nils Rasmussen, SEKIYA Yuhi

please register online at https://www.warwick.ac.uk/mrc/events.php

possible program
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(first suggestions only)

Mon 21st
11:00 Mark Gross (UCSD), Mirror symmetry and tropical geometry (1)
15:00 Alastair Craw (Glasgow), Noncommutative toric algebras
18:00 buffet meal in common room

Tue 22nd
11:00 Ravi Vakil (Stanford), Re-imagining universal covers and
fundamental groups in algebraic geometry
12:00 lunch in common room
14:00 Margarida Mendes Lopes, Campedelli surfaces with large pi_1
16:00 Miyaoka, Bogomolov-Simpson inequality for stable Higgs bundles

Wed 23rd
9:30 Yuri Prokhorov (Moscow), Q-Fano threefolds of large Fano index
10:45 ITO Yukari (Nagoya), Existence of crepant resolutions
12:00 SEKIYA Yuhi (Nagoya), Irreducibility of Hilbert schemes and
4-dimensional crepant resolutions
free afternoon

Thu 24th
11:00 Mark Gross, Mirror symmetry and tropical geometry (2)
14:00 Alvaro Nolla, Dihedral G-Hilb via quiver representations
16:00 Michael Wemyss, Noncommutative algebra and orbifold geometry
conference dinner:
19:00 Emperor Restaurant, Bath Place, Leamington Spa

Fri 25th
10:00 Gavin Brown, Tom and Jerry
11:30 Ravi Vakil (Stanford), (1) The equations for (PP^1)^n//Aut(PP^1),
or (2) Desingularisation of the space of elliptic curves in PP^n.
13:30 pub lunch


other possible speakers
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Brown, Kaloghiros, Lazic, Alvaro Nolla, Reid, Wemyss