Birational Geometry of Varieties

Pisa, May 5-7 2006



BGV Schedule Practical information Abstract Participants




Schedule
Friday, May 5th
Time Speaker Title
9:00-9:30 Registration - Registration - Registration - Registration - Registration - Registration - Registration
9:30-10:15 Arnaud Beauville Finite subgroups of the Cremona group
Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 Luca Migliorini The Hodge structure of intersection cohomology
12:15-13:00 Massimiliano Mella Rational cubic hypersurfaces
Lunch Break
15:30-16:15 Marco Andreatta On Fano manifolds
Coffee Break
16:45-17.10 Paola Frediani Deformations of real and complex structures on principal torus bundles over tori.
17:15-17:40 Miguel A. Barja On the topological index of irregular surfaces
17:45-18:10 Andreas Knutsen On varieties which are uniruled by lines


Saturday, May 6th
Time Speaker Title
9:30-10:15 Rick Miranda Degenerations to unions of planes and interpolation theorems
Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 Miles Reid Graded rings and algebraic varieties
12:15-13:00 Fabrizio Catanese Triangular groups and some of their applications
Lunch Break
15:30-16:15 Mihnea Popa GV sheaves, Fourier-Mukai, and generic vanishing
Coffee Break
16:45-17.10 Cinzia Casagrande Almost Fano threefolds with pseudoindex > 1
17:15-17:40 Luis Fuentes Garcia Cyclic coverings and Seshadri constants on smooth surfaces


Sunday, May 7th
Time Speaker Title
9:30-10:15 Alessio Corti Weak Fano 3-folds
Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 Margarida Mendes Lopes Surfaces with K2 ≤ 3χ-1 and finite fundamental groups
12:15-13:00 Claire Voisin On the Chow ring of certain algebraic hyper-Kaehler manifolds