Birational Geometry and K-stability of Fano Varieties

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Birational Geometry and K-stability of Fano Varieties

 21 - 25 Nov 2022

ICMS, Bayes Centre, Edinburgh

Organiser(s):

  • Anne­-Sophie Kaloghiros, Brunel University London
  • Carolina Araujo, Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA)
  • Fabrizio Catanese, Bayreuth University & KIAS Seoul
  • Ivan Cheltsov, University of Edinburgh

About:

Notions of K-stability attracted interest as purely algebro-geometric characterisations of the existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds. Since then, exciting developments in the field have shown that shows that K-stability is also the right framework to understand the moduli theory of Fano varieties - or in layman’s terms, how Fano varieties behave in families. Yet, our understanding of K-stability is still very partial!

Birational geometry gives us tools to further this understanding and to construct geometrically meaningful degenerations of Fano manifolds. This interplay between birational geometry, moduli theory and K-stability was at the heart of the workshop.

Programme:

Monday 21 November
Registration and Refreshments
Welcome and Housekeeping
Jihun Park, IBS-CGP / POSTECH Factoriality of sextic double solids, revisited
Livia Campo, Korea Institute for Advanced Study Flags on Fano 3-fold hypersurfaces
Refreshments
Maksym Fedorchuk, Boston College Towards standard models of Fano hypersurface fibrations over one-dimensional bases
Lunch
Yuchen Liu, Northwestern University K-moduli of cyclic covers and wall crossing
Refreshments
Adrien Dubouloz, CNRS - UNiversité de Bourgogne Additive groups, Rees algebras and test configurations
Jesus Martinez-Garcia, University of Essex Some observations on the dimension of Fano K-moduli
Welcome Reception, hosted at ICMS
Tuesday 22 November
Tiago Duarte-Guerreiro, University of Essex On the birational geometry of Fano 3-fold complete intersections
Ciro Ciliberto, Università di Roma Tor Vergata Elliptic curves, ACM and Ulrich bundles on prime Fano threefolds
Refreshments
Nivedita Viswanathan, Loughborough University K-stability of smooth Fano 3-folds of certain families
Lunch
Piotr Pokora, Pedagogical University of Cracow Maximizing curves
Refreshments
Gavin Brown, University of Warwick Simple 3-fold flops
Public Talk, by Carolina Araujo Algebraic Geometry - history, challenges and applications
Wednesday 23 November
Thibaut Delcroix, Univ. Montpellier Effective conditions of existence of extremal Kähler metrics
Hamid Abban, University of Nottingham On K-moduli of quartic threefolds
Refreshments
Ana-Maria Castravet, Paris Saclay, University of Versailles Exceptional collections on moduli spaces of stable rational curves
Lunch
Andrea Petracci, University of Bologna Toric degenerations, mutations and applications to K-moduli
Refreshments
Egor Yasinsky, École Polytechnique Birational maps of Severi-Brauer surfaces and quotients of higher Cremona groups
Kento Fujita, Osaka University The Calabi problem for Fano threefolds
Reception / Light Supper, hosted at ICMS
Thursday 24 November
Cristiano Spotti, Aarhus University Towards a stability notion for LCK manifolds
Paolo Cascini, Imperial College MMP for algebraically integrable foliations
Refreshments
Francesco Zucconi, Università degli studi di Udine On integral points of some Fano threefolds and their Hilbert schemes of lines and conics
Lunch
Ruadhai Dervan, University of Glasgow Stability and Kähler-Einstein metrics in big classes
Refreshments
Inder Kaur, Loughborough University Hodge conjecture for singular varieties
Alessio Corti, Imperial College London Toric degenerations of Fano manifolds
Workshop Dinner, hosted at Blonde Restaurant
Friday 25 November
Takashi Kishimoto, Saitama University Equivariant completions of vector groups into Fano varieties
Liana Heuberger, University of Bath Towards classifying Q-Fano threefolds