Thu 13th-Tue 18th Mar 2008
"Explicit methods for 3-folds"

A weekend workshop on recent progress in 3-folds

Confirmed participants include
Brown, Cheltsov, Corti, Dolgachev, Hacking, Kovacs, Cristina Lopez, LUO
Tie, Mella, Mendes Lopes, Nikulin, Papadakis, Pignatelli, Prokhorov,
Reid, Sankaran, Shepherd-Barron, Jan Stevens, Szendroi, XU Chenyang,
Zucconi

graduate students
(about 10 locals +) Dimitra Kosta, Andrew Wilson, Brian Jurgelewicz

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



Thu 13th March
14:00--15:00 Balazs Szendroi (Oxford) Towards connecting the web of Calabi-Yaus with bundles
16:00--17:00 Greg Sankaran (Bath) Abelian surfaces in toric Fano 4-folds
18:00 dinner in common room

Fri 14th March
10:00--11:00 Francesco Zucconi (Udine) On the genus 12 Fano: a generalization
12:00--13:00 Tie Luo (Arlington) 2-forms on 3-folds
14:00--15:00 Massimiliano Mella (Ferrara) Tangential connections
16:00--17:00 Department colloquium: Dorothy Buck (Imperial)
  Predicting DNA knot/link type after protein action
17:00 Colloquium snacks in the common room, dinner in Earsldon

Sat 15th March
09:30--10:30 Yuri Prokhorov (Moscow) On conic bundles and del Pezzo fibrations
10:30--11:30 Sandor Kovacs (Washington) Extension theorems for logarithmic differentials
12:00--13:00 Paul Hacking (Washington) Smoothable del Pezzo surfaces with quotient singularities
13:00 lunch at Wing Wah

Mon 17th March
10:30--11:30 Vyacheslav Nikulin (Liverpool) On classification of arithmetic hyperbolic reflection groups
12:00--13:00 Nick Shepherd-Barron (Cambridge) Explicit projective geometry for Jacobians
14:00--15:00 Gavin Brown/Miles Reid (Kent and Warwick) Almost homogeneous varieties and A-flips
16:00--17:00 Igor Dolgachev (Michigan) Elements of finite order in the Cremona group Cr(n,Q)
19:50 Dinner in Kenilworth

Tue 18 March
10:30--11:30 Gavin Brown (Kent) K3s and Fanos, Tom and Jerry
12:00--13:00 Jan Stevens (Chalmers Gothenburg) P^1 as exceptional set
13.00 lunch in common room