Algebraic geometry conference

19--23 December 2011, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand



Organisers: Caucher Birkar (Cambridge) and Yujiro Kawamata (Tokyo)

With the assistance of Pirom Kamolratanakul (President of Chulalongkorn),
Rattachat Mongkolnavin (Chulalongkorn), Puttachat Suwankiri, and Sukalin Wanakasemsan (Chulalongkorn).




The program (with pdf file of most of the talks):

Monday
     8:30 Registration.
     9:00 Openning of the conference.
     9:30-10:30 Nero Budur (Notre Dame): Hyperplane Arragements.
     11:00-12:00 Jungkai Chen (National Taiwan): Explicit Resolution of Three Dimensional Terminal Singularities.
     13:30-14:30 Dmitri Panov (Kings College): Polyhedral Kahler Manifolds.
     15:00-16:00 Yujiro Kawamata (Tokyo)[general talk]: Introduction to complex algebraic geometry.

Tuesday
     9:30-10:30 Misha Verbitski (HSE, Moscow): Global Torelli theorem for hyperkahler manifolds.
     11:00-12:00 Paolo Cascini (Imperial College): Topological bounds in birational geometry.
     13:30-14:30 Shinnosuke Okawa (Tokyo): Characterization of varieties of Fano type via singularities of Cox rings I. The arxiv article is here.
     15:00-16:00 Mircea Mustaţă (Michigan)[general talk]: F-pure thresholds.

Wednesday
     9:30-10:30 Yujiro Kawamata (Tokyo): Derived categories in algebraic geometry.
     11:00-12:00 Hajime Tsuji (Sophia, Tokyo): Semipositivity of relative logcanonical bundles via K\"ahler-Ricci flows.
     13:30-14:30 Yoshinori Gongyo (Tokyo): Characterization of varieties of Fano type via singularities of Cox rings II. The arxiv article is here.
     15:00-16:00 Caucher Birkar (Cambridge)[general talk]: Polynomial equations: arithmetic, geometry, and topology.

Thursday
     9:30-10:30 Lawrence Ein (Illinois): Asymptotic syzygies of algebraic varieites.
     11:00-12:00 Mircea Mustaţă (Michigan): Asymptotic base loci in positive characteristic.
     13:00 Excursion to Wat Phra Kaew in the grand palace.
     17:00 Reception at Pinyo Suwankiri house.

Friday
     9:30 -10:30 Atsushi Ito (Tokyo): Seshadri constants via toric degenerations.
     11:00-12:00 Caucher Birkar (Cambridge): Iitaka's additivity problem over abelian varieties.
     13:30-14:30 Sergey Galkin (Tokyo): Homologically minimal fourfolds.
     15:00-16:00 Hajime Tsuji (Sophia, Tokyo)[general talk]: K\"ahler Geometry and Algebraic Geometry.




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Practical info:
  • Map of Chulalongkorn University -- the hotel is building 32 and the conference venue building 62.
  • Travel from Suvarnabhumi airport to the hotel (Sasa International House): if you arrive after midnight you need to take a taxi, otherwise you can take the airport link (train) to Phaya-Thai station; next you can take a taxi to the hotel or take the skytrain (BTS) to Siam station and then take a taxi or just walk which takes around 10-15 minutes.
  • Print this map of the hotel to show to taxi drivers.
  • Dress code: wear "office dress" around the conference venue (suit and tie are not necessary).
  • Food: There are many restaurants and a food court in the MBK centre (ask the information desk). There are also many restaurants in Siam Square and the shopping centres nearby, eg Siam Paragon.