Classical Algebraic Geometry Today

January 26-30, 2009

Organizers:  Lucia Caporaso (U. Rome III), Brendan Hassett (Rice), James McKernan (MIT), Mircea Mustata (Michigan, co-chair), Mihnea Popa (U. Illinois - Chicago, co-chair)

MSRI webpage for this workshop.

Algebraic Geometry is one of the most diverse areas of mathematics.  Due to the breadth of the  subject it is often a challenge for graduate students and people from other fields to get a global view of current developments in the field.  Algebraic Geometry has grown dramatically over the past century, with new subfields constantly branching off.  The core of the field is now universally called Classical Algebraic Geometry, and exciting area itself full of fundamental unsolved problems and at the same time providing a theoretical foundation for the areas that have developed in recent years.

The main theme of the workshop will be to explore modern approaches to problems originating in Classical Algebraic Geometry, and at the same time offer an introduction to various subfields to the younger participants in the semester-long program.  Topics will include: birational geometry, moduli spaces of curves and vector bundles, abelian varieties, rational curves on algebraic varieties, derived categories. 

 

Confirmed speakers:

Olivier Debarre (University of Strasbourg)

Mark Andrea de Cataldo (SUNY, Stony Brook)

David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley)

Samuel Grushevsky (Princeton University)

Christopher Hacon (University of Utah)

Joe Harris (Harvard University)

Daniel Huybrechts (University of Bonn)

Jun-Muk Hwang (KIAS, Seoul)

Robert Lazarsfeld (University of Michigan)

János Kollár (Princeton University)

Alina Marian (University of Illinois, Chicago)

Kieran O'Grady (University of Rome I) 

Martin Olsson (University of California, Berkeley)

Rita Pardini (University of Pisa)

Giuseppe Pareschi (University of Rome II)

Richard Thomas (Imperial College, London)

Burt Totaro (Cambridge University)

Yuri Tschinkel (New York University)

The schedule for the conference is here.

Accommodations

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Rose Garden Inn. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-992-9005 

OR directly on their website. Click on Corporate at the bottom of the screen and when prompted enter the code MATH

(this code is not case sensitive). By using this code a new calendar will appear and will show MSRI rate on all room

types available. The cut-off date for reservations is January 9, 2009.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Durant. Please mention the workshop name and 

reference the following code when making reservations via phone, fax, or e-mail: M00000. The cut-off date

for reservations is December 26, 2008. Room rate: $159/night.

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