UK Algebraic Geometry Network: Winter School

13 Jan 2025, by ablahatherell in Sponsored events

16 – 20 December 2024

Lecture Theatre 1, The Fylde Building, Lancaster University, UK

Supported by the Heilbronn Institute Small Grants Scheme

A Winter School for students and early career researchers.

Organisers:

Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros (Brunel – lead coordinator)
Timothy Logvinenko (Cardiff)
Johan Martens (Edinburgh)
Gregory Sankaran (Bath)
Alan Thompson (Loughborough)
Michael Wemyss (Glasgow)

Course Lecturers:

Paul Hacking (Massachusetts): Calabi-Yau manifolds and mirror symmetry
Enrica Mazzon (Regensburg): Introduction to non-Archimedean geometry
Franco Rota (Glasgow): Surface-like pseudolattices, del Pezzo surfaces, and genus one fibrations
Nikolaos Tsakanikas (EPFL, Lausanne): The termination of flips conjecture in birational geometry

More information on the winter school website