18- 21 September 2013

The aim is to provide a first introduction to some of the current trends in algebraic geometry, esp. centring on appropriate problem areas for beginning PhD students.

Some funding may be available, particularly for UK based graduate students.

For further information, contact Miles Reid: Miles dot Reid at warwick dot ac dot uk

Draft PROGRAMME

All lectures will be held in Room B3:02, Mathematics Institute

Wednesday 18th September

12:00 Miles Reid (Warwick) Graded rings and constructions of algebraic varieties (1)
14:00 Burt Totaro (UCLA and DPMMS) Algebraic cycles on abelian varieties and K3 surfaces
16:00 Tom Bridgeland (Sheffield) Bluffers guide to derived categories

Thursday 19th September

10:00 Tom Bridgeland (Sheffield) Derived categories of K3 surfaces
12:00 Ben Wormleighton (Warwick) G-Hilb for trihedral groups
13:00 Sandwich lunch in common room
CALF afternoon:
14:00 Seung-Jo Jung (Warwick) Moduli of representations of McKay quiver
15:30 Taro Sano (Warwick) Deformations of weak Fano manifolds
17:00 Michael Selig (Warwick) Orbifold Riemann-Roch in high dimensions
18:00 Dinner and Party in common room

Friday 20th September

10:00 Mark Blume (Münster and Warwick) Root systems and Losev-Manin moduli spaces
12:00 Artie Prendergast-Smith (Loughborough) Classification of varieties, and rational curves
13:00 Lunch at University House
14:00 Cristina Manolache (Imperial) Counting curves on toric varieties
15:30 Gavin Brown (Loughborough) Graded rings over Fanos and Calabi-Yaus
17:00 Timothy Logvinenko (Cardiff) Derived categories and other stories (1)

Saturday 21st September

10:00 Timothy Logvinenko (Cardiff) Derived categories and other stories (2)
12:00 Miles Reid (Warwick) Graded rings and constructions of algebraic varieties (2)
Pub lunch