Birational geometry conference
(in honour of V.V. Shokurov)
6-10 December 2010, ICMS, Edinburgh



Organisers: Caucher Birkar (Cambridge) and Ivan Cheltsov (Edinburgh)




In the conference, we hope to explore recent progress, current outstanding problems, and future directions of birational geometry. Informal discussions will be an essential part of the meeting while formal talks serving mainly as a framework.





Current list of participants:

  1. Valery Alexeev (Georgia) 
  2. Florin Ambro (Simion Stoilow) 
  3. Tatiana Bandman (Bar Ilan University) 
  4. Victor Batyrev (Tuebingen) 
  5. Caucher Birkar (Cambridge)
  6. Fedor Bogomolov (Courant) 
  7. Alexey Bondal (Aberdeen)
  8. Sebastien Boucksom (Jussieu) 
  9. Gavin Brown (Kent) 
  10. Amael Broustet (Lille 1) 
  11. Nero Budur (Notre Dame) 
  12. Frederic Campana (Nancy) 
  13. Paolo Cascini (Imperial College) 
  14. Fabrizio Catanese (Bayreuth) 
  15. Ivan Cheltsov (Edinburgh) 
  16. Jungkai Chen (National Taiwan University) 
  17. Yifei Chen (AMSS) 
  18. Sung Rak Choi (Riverside) 
  19. Alessio Corti (Imperial College) 
  20. Alastair Craw (Glasgow) 
  21. Tommaso de Fernex (Utah)
  22. Jean-Pierre Demailly (Grenoble) 
  23. Simon Donaldson (Imperial College) 
  24. Lawrence Ein (Chicago) 
  25. Ivan Fesenko (Nottingham) 
  26. Elizabeth Gasparim (Edinburgh) 
  27. Vasily Golyshev (Steklov) 
  28. Yoshinori Gongyo (Tokyo) 
  29. Brendan Hassett (Rice)
  30. Jun-Muk Hwang (KIAS) 
  31. Osamu Fujino (Kyoto) 
  32. Dimitry Kaledin (Steklov) 
  33. Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros (Cambridge) 
  34. Ludmil Katzarkov (Miami) 
  35. Masayuki Kawakita (RIMS)  
  36. Yujiro Kawamata (Tokyo) 
  37. Tim Kirschner (Bayreuth) 
  38. Viktor Kulikov (Steklov) 
  39. Alexander Kuznetsov (Steklov)
  40. Stephane Lamy (Warwick) 
  41. Vladimir Lazic (Max Planck)
  42. Kenji Matsuki (Purdue) 
  43. James McKernan (MIT) 
  44. Grigory Mikhalkin (Geneva) 
  45. Yoichi Miyaoka (Tokyo)
  46. Shigefumi Mori (RIMS)
  47. Mircea Mustata (Michigan) 
  48. Viacheslav Nikulin (Liverpool) 
  49. Gianluca Pacienza (Strasbourg) 
  50. Dmitri Panov (Imperial College) 
  51. Jihun Park (POSTECH) 
  52. Mihai Paun (Nancy) 
  53. Artie Prendergast-Smith (Hannover) 
  54. Yuri Prokhorov (Moscow State) 
  55. Aleksandr Pukhlikov (Liverpool)
  56. Miles Reid (Warwick) 
  57. Gregory Sankaran (Bath)
  58. Nick Shepherd-Barron (Cambridge)
  59. Vyacheslav Shokurov (Johns Hopkins) 
  60. Constantin Shramov (Steklov) 
  61. Yum-Tong Siu (Harvard) 
  62. Yukihide Takayama (Ritsumeikan)  
  63. Gang Tian (Princeton) 
  64. Alexander Tikhomirov (Yaroslavl) 
  65. Burt Totaro (Cambridge) 
  66. Yuri Tschinkel (Courant)  
  67. Hajime Tsuji (Sophia) 
  68. Nikolaos Tziolas (Cyprus) 
  69. Claire Voisin (Jussieu)
  70. Pelham Wilson (Cambridge)
  71. Chenyang Xu (MIT)
  72. Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard)
  73. Yuri Zarhin (Penn State) 

  • Our application for a generous grant from ICMS was successful. LMS application was also successful.
  • We are in the process of getting more grants to support the participants of  the conference.