Birational Geometry
Dec 6, 2010 - Dec 10, 2010
ICMS, 15 South College Street Edinburgh
Organisers
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Birkar, Caucher | University of Cambridge |
| Cheltsov, Ivan | University of Edinburgh |
PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE FOR THIS WORKSHOP:
MONDAY 6 DECEMBER REGISTRATION AND THE WORKSHOP WILL TAKE PLACE AT ICMS HEADQUARTERS AT 15 SOUTH COLLEGE STREET
TUESDAY - FRIDAY THE WORKSHOP WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE LECTURE THEATRE, HUGH ROBSON BUILDING, GEORGE SQUARE
In the conference, we hope to explore recent progress, current outstanding problems, and future directions of birational geometry. Informal discussions will be an essential part of the meeting while formal talks serving mainly as a framework.
This workshop will be held in honour of Vyacheslav V. Shokurov's 60th birthday. Further details regarding Vyacheslav V. Shokurov's work can be found here with a link to the Maths Genealogy Project here. Background reading and other information can be found here. (ICMS is not responsible for the content of external Internet sites.)
Arrangements
Participation
Participation is by invitation only. The workshop will begin on Monday morning 6 December and finish on Friday afternoon 10 December 2010.
UK Visas
If you are travelling from overseas you may require an entry visa. A European visa does not guarantee entry to the UK. Please use this link to the UK Visas site to find out if you need a visa and, if so, how to apply for one. If you do require a visa, ICMS can (on request) provide a signed invitation letter.
Venue
The workshop will be held at ICMS 15 South College Street and Hugh Robson Building, George Square Registration, talks, lunch and post-workshop drinks on Monday will be held at ICMS, 15 South College Street. All talks on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will take place at the Hugh Robson Building.
Wireless Access
At 15 South College Street
ICMS at 15 South College Street, has wireless access throughout. On arrival at Registration you will be given instructions and a code for accessing the wireless network. For those without laptops, there are a number of computers available for you to check your emails. Delegates are welcome to make use of the public areas at 15 South College Street throughout the week.
Travel
Information about travel to the UK and Edinburgh is available here. Lothian buses charge 1.20 GBP for a single journey and 3.00 GBP for a day ticket. Please note that the exact fare is required and no change is given.
A taxi directly from the airport will cost approximately 18.00 to 20.00 GBP to the city centre for a one-way journey.
From the airport, you can take the airport bus Airlink to the city centre. It will cost you 3.50 GBP for a single ticket, or 6.00 GBP return. More details on the airport bus Airlink is available here. The bus will take you to Waverley Bridge (next to Waverley Railway Station).
If travelling by train, please note that Edinburgh has two railway stations - Waverley Railway Station being the main station and closest to the workshop venue at ICMS and George Square. If you alight at Edinburgh Waverley, the workshop venue is an easy 10 minute walk over North and South Bridge map. The second railway station is called Haymarket and is at the West End of the city centre.
Please note that it is your responsibility to have adequate travel insurance to cover medical and other emergencies that may occur on your trip.
Accommodation
If your invitation included the offer of accommodation, then ICMS will arrange this and details will be in your letter of invitation. ICMS has reserved rooms for all delegates in an hotel and University of Edinburgh en suite accommodation. All accommodation is a fifteen minute walk from ICMS. Please indicate on your booking form if you wish to take up the offer of these rooms or make your own arrangements.
A list of Edinburgh accommodation of various types and prices is available here .
Meals and Refreshments
Morning and afternoon refreshments will be provided on each day of the workshop.
A buffet lunch will be provided at ICMS in the Chapterhouse on the ground floor of 15 South College Street on Monday 6 December.
The workshop dinner will take place on Wednesday 8 December at 19.00 in The Magnum Restaurant, 1 Albany Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3PY.
The workshop grant will cover the cost of this catering.
Registration
Registration will take place 08.30 - 09.00 on Monday 6 December at ICMS, 15 South College Street Edinburgh EH8 9AA
Financial Arrangements
Your individual financial arrangements will be laid out in your invitation and repeated in your final email, which will be sent shortly before the workshop.
If we have agreed to pay some of your travel costs, details will be in your invitation letter. Reimbursement will take place after the workshop and will involve payment directly into your bank account. At Registration you will be given an expenses claim form and this should be submitted to ICMS, with original receipts. It would be helpful if you could bring your bank details to the workshop. In addition to the bank account number, participants from the USA and Canada will require their bank’s routing number, those from the UK will be asked for the bank sort code, and those from Europe and the rest of the world, their IBAN and SWIFT/BIC code. We cannot reimburse any item without a signed claim form and original receipts.
Unless otherwise stated in your invitation email, there will be a registration fee of 30.00 GBP for the workshop. We ask that this is paid in advance by using this credit or debit card payment form. The form should be printed out, completed and faxed back (as email is not a secure way of sending credit card information). The fax number is on the form. If it is not possible for you pay in advance, you may print out the credit/debit card form above and bring the completed form along to Registration. We prefer not to handle cash at Registration.
Programme
Monday 6 December
ICMS, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh | |
08.30 - 09.00 | Registration at ICMS |
09.00 - 09.50 | James McKernan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
10.00 - 10.30 | Coffee/Tea, the Chapterhouse (ground floor) |
10.30 - 11.20 | Burt Totaro (University of Cambridge) |
11.30- 12.20 | Mihai Paun (Universite Nancy) |
13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch provided in the Chapterhouse (ground floor) |
14.00 - 14.50 | Hajime Tsuji ( Sophia University) |
15.00 - 15.30 | Coffee/Tea, the Chapterhouse (ground floor) |
15.30 - 15.40 | LMS meeting |
15.40 - 16.30 | Yujiro Kawamata (Univeristy of Tokyo) |
16.40- 17.30 | Yum-Tong Siu (Harvard University) |
18.00 - 19.30 | Wine Reception, the Chapterhouse (ground floor) With the generous support of the London Mathematical Society |
Tuesday 7 December
Hugh Robson Building, George Square | |
09.00 - 09.50 | Fedor Bogomolov (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) |
10.00 - 10.30 | Coffee/Tea (Peter's Yard - two minute walk) |
10.30 - 11.20 | Mircea Mustata (University of Michigan) |
11.30 - 12.20 | Kenji Matsuki (Purdue University) |
12.30 - 14.00 | Lunch break |
14.00 - 14.50 | Vlacheslav Nikulin (University of Liverpool) |
15.00 - 15.30 | Coffee/Tea (Peter's Yard - two minute walk) |
15.30 - 16.20 | Yuri Zarhin (Pennsylvania State University) |
16.30 - 17.20 | Slava Shokurov (Johns Hopkins University) |
18.00 | Wine reception, ICMS 15 South College Street |
Wednesday 8 December
Hugh Robson Building, George Square | |
09.00 - 09.50 | Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard University) |
10.00 - 10.30 | Coffee/Tea (Peter's Yard - two minute walk) |
10.30 - 11.20 | Jean-Pierre Demailly (Universite de Grenoble 1)Holomorphic morse inequalities and the Green-Griffiths-Lang conjecture |
11.30 - 12.20 | Ludmil Katzarkov (University of Miami) |
12.30 - 14.00 | Lunch break |
14.00 - 14.50 | Simon Donaldson (Imperial College London) |
15.00 - 15.30 | Coffee/Tea (Peter's Yard - two minute walk) |
15.30 - 16.20 | Shigefumi Mori ( Kyoto University) |
16.30 - 17.20 | Claire Voisin (Institute de Mathematiques Jussieu) |
19.00 | Workshop dinner, The Magnum Restaurant, 1 Albany Street |
Thursday 9 December
| Hugh Robson Building, George Square | |
09.00 - 09.50 | Valery Alexeev (University of Georgia) |
10.00 - 10.30 | Coffee/Tea (Peter's Yard - two minute walk) |
10.30 - 11.20 | Yuri Prokhorov (Moscow State University) |
11.30 - 12.20 | Alessio Corti (Imperial College London) |
12.30 - 14.00 | Lunch break |
14.00 - 14.50 | Fabrizio Catanese |
15.00 - 15.30 | Coffee/Tea (Peter's Yard - two minute walk) |
15.30 - 16.20 | Alexander Kuznetsov (Steklov Institute, Moscow) |
16.30 - 17.20 | Victor Kulikov(Steklov Institute, Moscow) |
Friday 10 December
Hugh Robson Building, George Square | |
09.00 - 09.50 | Jun-Muk Hwang (Korea Institute of Advanced Study) |
| 10.00-10.30 | Coffee/Tea |
10.30- 11.20 | Osamu Fujino (Kyoto University) |
11.30 - 12.20 | Stephane Lamy (University of Warwick) |
| Lunch | |
| 14.00 - 14.50 | Alexander Tikhomirov (Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University) Rationality of the moduli space of mathematical instantons |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 15.30-16.20 | Yuji Sano (Kyushu University) |
| 16.30 - 17.20 | Miles Reid (University of Warwick) Codimension 4 Gorenstein rings |
| Workshop closes |
Participants
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Ahmadinezhad, Hamid | University of Basel |
| Alexeev, Valery | University of Georgia |
| Ambro, Florin | Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy |
| Bandman, Tatiana | Bar Ilan University |
| Birkar, Caucher | University of Cambridge |
| Bogomolov, Fedor | Courant Institute |
| Boucksom, Sébastien | CNRS, Université Paris 6 |
| Bradfield, Philip | University of Wolverhampton (retired) |
| Broustet, Amael | University Lille 1 |
| Budur, Nero | University of Notre Dame |
| Campana, Frederic | Institut Élie Cartan Nancy |
| Cascini, Paolo | Imperial College London |
| Cheltsov, Ivan | University of Edinburgh |
| Chen, Yifei | Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Choi, Sung Rak | University of California, Riverside |
| Corti, Alessio | Imperial College London |
| Cutrone, Joseph | Johns Hopkins University |
| de Fernex, Tommaso | University of Utah |
| Demailly, Jean-Pierre | Université de Grenoble I |
| Donaldson, Simon | Imperial College London |
| Fesenko, Ivan | University of Nottingham |
| Fujino, Osamu | Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University |
| Galkin, Sergey | IPMU, University of Tokyo |
| Gasparim, Elizabeth | University of Edinburgh |
| Gongyo, Yoshinori | University of Tokyo |
| Gorinov, Alexey | University of Liverpool |
| Guletskii, Vladimir | University of Liverpool |
| Hwang, Jun-Muk | Korea Institute for Advanced Study |
| Jung, Seung-Jo | University of Warwick |
| Kaloghiros, Anne-Sophie | DPMMS, University of Cambridge |
| Katzarkov, Ludmil | University of Miami |
| Kawakita, Masayuki | Kyoto University |
| Kawamata, Y | University of Tokyo |
| Kirschner, Tim | Universität Bayreuth |
| Kosta, Dimitra | - |
| Kulikov, Victor | Steklov Mathematical Institute |
| Kuznetsov, Alexander | Steklov Mathematical Institute |
| Lamy, Stéphane | University of Warwick |
| Marshburn, Nicholas | Johns Hopkins University |
| Martinez Garcia, Jesus | University of Edinburgh |
| Matsuki, Kenji | Purdue University |
| Matsushita, Daisuke | Hokkaido University |
| McKernan, James | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Mori, Shigefumi | RIMS, Kyoto University |
| Mustata, Mircea | University of Michigan |
| Nikulin, Viacheslav | University of Liverpool |
| Panov, Dmitri | King's College London |
| Park, Jihun | Pohang University of Science and Technology |
| Paun, Mihai | Institut Elie Cartan, Nancy. |
| Prokhorov, Yuri | Moscow State University |
| Przyjalkowski, Victor | Steklov Institute |
| Reid, Miles | University of Warwick |
| Sakovics, Dmitrijs | University of Edinburgh |
| Sankaran, Gregory | University of Bath |
| Sano, Taro | University of Warwick |
| Sano, Yuji | Kyushu University |
| Shepherd-Barron, Nick | cambridge university |
| Shokurov, Vyacheslav | Johns Hopkins University & Steklov Institute of Mathematics |
| Shramov, Constantin | Steklov Mathematical Institute |
| Siu, Yum-Tong | Harvard University |
| Takayama, Yukihide | Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ritsumeikan University |
| Tikhomirov, Alexander | Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University |
| Totaro, Burt | University of Cambridge |
| Tsuji, Hajime | Sophia University |
| Voisin, Claire | Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu |
| Wemyss, Michael | University of Edinburgh |
| Wilson, Andrew | University of Edinburgh |
| Wilson, Pelham | University of Cambridge |
| Yau, Shing-Tung | Harvard University |
| Zarhin, Yuri | Pennsylvania State University |