Special Year on Algebraic Geometry and Topology

with partial financial support provided by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute

Program for the Minimal Models Activity

Monday 18 August - Friday 29 August, 2003

Talks were held in the Bernhard Neumann Seminar Room, Room G35 of the John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building. Light refreshments were available in the Common Room on the first floor during morning and afternoon coffee breaks.

Abstracts are available here, or by clicking on the title of a talk in the program below.

Monday 18 August
14:00-15:00	Amnon Neeman, Australian National University A non-commutative generalisation of the problem of extending vector bundles
15:00-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:00	Tommaso de Fernex, University of Michigan Bounds on log canonical thresholds, with applications to birational rigidity
18:00-	Dinner at Tip Top Asian Gourmet, Garema Place
Tuesday 19 August
09:00-10:00	Alessio Corti , University of Cambridge 3-fold and 4-fold flips after Shokurov (1)
10:00-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00	Ovidiu Pasarescu, Romanian Academy Curves on rational surfaces with hyperelliptic hyperplane sections
12:00-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-15:00	Masayuki Kawakita, University of Tokyo Divisorial contractions (1)
15:00-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:00	Anita Buckley, University of Ljubljana Orbifold RR for polarised threefolds (1)
Wednesday 20 August
09:00-10:00	Igor Dolgachev, University of Michigan A complex ball uniformization of the moduli space of cubic surfaces via periods of K3 surfaces
10:00-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00	Johan de Jong, MIT Stable orders over surfaces
12:00-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-15:00	Alessio Corti, University of Cambridge 3-fold and 4-fold flips after Shokurov (2)
15:00-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:00	Anita Buckley, University of Ljubljana Orbifold RR for polarised threefolds (2)
Thursday 21 August
09:00-10:00	Jason Starr , MIT Sections of rationally connected fibrations
10:00-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00	Johan de Jong, MIT Gabber's theorem Br=Br' for quasiprojective schemes
12:00-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-15:00	Takayuki Hayakawa, Kanazawa University Divisors with minimal discrepancy over 3-dimensional terminal singularities
15:00-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:00	Alessio Corti, University of Cambridge 3-fold and 4-fold flips after Shokurov (3)
17:30-19:45	Banquet at Chairman and Yip, Bunda Street
Friday 22 - Sunday 24 August
	Free time - see information for visitors
Monday 25 August
09:30-10:30	Gavin Brown, University of Warwick; Alessio Corti, University of Cambridge; and Francesco Zucconi, University of Udine Birational geometry of 3-fold Mori fibre spaces (1)
10:30-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-12:30	Sergey Kudryavtsev, Moscow State University Three-dimensional contractions and log del Pezzo surfaces
12:30-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-15:00	Toshiyuki Katsura, University of Tokyo Invariants of algebraic varieties in positive characteristic
15:00-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:00	Brendan Hassett, Rice University Towards a canonical model for the moduli space of curves
19:00-	Dinner TBA
Tuesday 26 August
09:00-10:00	Jiun-Cheng Chen, Harvard University Flop, flip and derived category
10:00-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00	Magda Sebestean, UFR de Mathématiques McKay correspondence, examples and calculations
12:00-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-15:00	Florin Ambro, University of Cambridge Parabolic log varieties
15:00-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:00	Johan de Jong, MIT Period = Index for Brauer classes on surfaces
17:30-18:30	Kaori Suzuki, University of Tokyo On Fano indices of Q-Fano 3-folds
Wednesday 27 August
09:00-10:00	Jason Starr, MIT Rational curves on Fano hypersurfaces
10:00-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00	Claudio Pedrini, University of Genoa Finite dimensional motives and Bloch-Beilinson's conjectures
12:00-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-15:00	Gavin Brown, University of Warwick; Alessio Corti, University of Cambridge; and Francesco Zucconi, University of Udine Birational geometry of 3-fold Mori fibre spaces (2)
15:00-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:00	Ben Andrews, Australian National University Ricci flow and the geometrisation conjecture after Perelman (1)
17:30-18:30	Miles Reid, University of Warwick Unprojection
Thursday 28 August
09:00-10:00	Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University Nilpotent Lie algebras and relations in the cohomology of Deligne-Mumford moduli spaces
10:00-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00	Gus Lehrer, University of Sydney Cohomology of discriminant varieties with nonconstant local coefficients
12:00-13:30	Lunch break
13:30-14:30	Masayuki Kawakita, University of Tokyo Divisorial contractions (2)
14:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:00	Ben Andrews, Australian National University Ricci flow and the geometrisation conjecture after Perelman (2)
19:00-	Banquet TBA
Friday 29 August
09:00-10:00	Sergey Kudryavtsev, Moscow State University Three-dimensional contractions and log del Pezzo surfaces
10:00-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00	Joost van Hamel, University of Sydney A homology reinterpretation of the Brauer-Manin obstruction
12:00-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-15:00	Gavin Brown, University of Warwick; Alessio Corti, University of Cambridge; and Francesco Zucconi, University of Udine Birational geometry of 3-fold Mori fibre spaces (3)