This special month in Ann Arbor is organized under the NSF Focused Research Group grant "Birational Geometry and Singularities in Zero and Positive Characteristic". During this time, we plan several lecture series, devoted to topics related to our project (characteristic p techniques, singularities, developments in birational geometry), as well as research talks by the participants. The emphasis of the program, however, will be on informal discussions and interactions.
Week 1 (May 26- May 30). All talks this week will be in 4096 EH.
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Wed May 28 | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Karen E. Smith | Introduction to globally F-regular varieties | Thu May 29 |
| 11:00-12:00 | Yoshinori Gongyo | Characterization of log Fano varieties via singularities of Cox rings: mod p proofs |
| 2:00-3:00 | Yuchen Zhang | On the volume of isolated singularities | Fri May 30 |
| 11:00-12:00 | Tommaso de Fernex | Mori dream spaces of Calabi-Yau type and log canonical Cox rings, after Kawamata and Okawa |
Week 2 (June 2- June 6). All talks this week will be in 4096 EH.
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Mon June 2 | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Karl Schwede | Introduction to Cartier modules I |
| Tue June 3 | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Karl Schwede | Introduction to Cartier modules II |
| Wed June 4 | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Karl Schwede | Introduction to Cartier modules III |
Week 3 (June 9 - June 13). All talks this week will be in 1360 EH.
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Mon Jun 9 | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Kevin Tucker | Comparing multiplier ideals to test ideals on numerically Q-Gorenstein varieties |
| 2:00-3:00 | Shunsuke Takagi | Nilpotency of Frobenius and divisor class groups | Tu Jun 10 |
| 11:00-12:00 | Zsolt Patakfalvi | A generic vanishing theorem in positive characteristic |
| 2:00-3:00 | Hiromu Tanaka | Minimal model theory for surfaces over imperfect fields | Wed Jun 11 |
| 10:30-11:30 | Karl Schwede | F-singularities with the computer |
| 2:00-3:00 | János Kollár | Szemerédi-Trotter-type theorems | Thu Jun 12 |
| 10:45-11:45 | Vladimir Lazić | A note on abundance |
| 2:00-3:00 | Lawrence Ein | Gonality Cojecture and the geometry of Hilbert schemes of points |
| 4:00-5:00 | Charles Stibitz | Some results on Fano manifolds | Fri Jun 13 |
| 11:00-12:00 | Tommaso de Fernex | Nash problem I |
| 2:00-3:00 | Roi Docampo | Nash problem II |
Week 4 (June 16 - June 20). The talks on Monday and Thursday afternoon will be in 1360 EH.
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Mon Jun 16 | ||
| 10:30-11:30 | James McKernan | Toroidal modifications |
| 2:00-3:00 | Bhargav Bhatt | Algebraization and Tannaka duality | Thu Jun 19 |
| 2:00-3:00 | Christopher Hacon | On the boundedness of the functor of KSBA stable varieties |
During the last week, there will also be a workshop, starting on Tuesday afteroon, June 17, and ending on Thursday, June 19, at noon. All talks will be in 2548 CCL (this is not in the math department, but in the CC Little Science Building: here is a campus map). During the aftenooon breaks, coffee and snacks will be available in the math department atrium.
On Wednesday, there will be a conference dinner, in the math department atrium, starting at 6:30pm.
Organizers:Tommaso de Fernex, Mircea Mustata, Karl Schwede.
Invited Speakers: Manuel Blickle, Paolo Cascini, Yoshinori Gongyo, János Kollár, Sándor Kovács, Zhiyu Tian, Orlando Villamayor, Chenyang Xu.
The following is the workshop schedule.
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Tue June 17 | ||
| 2:00-3:00 | János Kollár | Maps between local Picard groups |
| 3:00-4:00 | Coffee | |
| 4:00-5:00 | Paolo Cascini | Topological bounds in birational geometry |
| Wed June 18 | ||
| 9:30-10:30 | Orlando Villamayor | Equimultiplicity, algebraic elimination, and blowing up |
| 11:00-12:00 | Chenyang Xu | Maximal order pole of motivic zeta function |
| Lunch | ||
| 2:00-3:00 | Yoshinori Gongyo | Versions of injectivity and extension theorems |
| 3:00-4:00 | Coffee | |
| 4:00-5:00 | Zhiyu Tian | Weak approximation of cubic surfaces over global fields |
| Thu June 19 | ||
| 9:30-10:30 | Manuel Blickle | Bernstein-Sato polynomials for test modules |
| 11:00-12:00 | Sándor Kovács | Higher direct images of logarithmic canonical sheaves |