Mini-courses & Workshop “The Topology of Algebraic Varieties”

September 21-28, 2012

Program
 

Friday, September 21, 2012
09:30 - 10:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)

Session - Mini-cours / Mini-courses
Meeting room(s) : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Anne Pichon (Institut de mathématiques de Luminy)
Walter Neumann (Columbia University)
Topological methods in the study of singularities - I
Abstract
11:00 - 11:15
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:15 - 12:15
Anne Pichon (Institut de mathématiques de Luminy)
Walter Neumann (Columbia University)
Topological methods in the study of singularities - II
Abstract
12:15 - 14:40
Lunch break
14:40 - 15:40
Ryoichi Kobayashi
(Nagoya University)
Logarithmic genera and the BMY-inequality - I
Abstract
15:40 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245

Session - Colloque CRM-ISM Colloquium
Meeting room(s) : 6214

16:00 - 17:00
Walter Neumann
(Columbia University)
Geometry of complex surface singularities
Abstract

17:00
Wine-and-cheese reception
Room(s) 6245

 

Saturday, September 22, 2012
09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245

Session - Mini-cours / Mini-courses
Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Anne Pichon (Institut de mathématiques de Luminy)
Walter Neumann (Columbia University)
Topological methods in the study of singularities - III
Abstract
10:30 - 10:45
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:45 - 11:45
Anne Pichon (Institut de mathématiques de Luminy)
Walter Neumann (Columbia University)
Topological methods in the study of singularities - IV
Abstract
11:45 - 14:15
Lunch break
14:15 - 15:15
Ryoichi Kobayashi
(Nagoya University)
Logarithmic genera and the BMY-inequality - II
Abstract
15:15 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:30
Terrence Napier (Lehigh University)
Mohan Ramachandran (University of Buffalo, SUNY)
Harmonic functions, Kähler manifolds, and fundamental groups - I
Abstract
16:30 - 16:45
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:45 - 17:45
Terrence Napier (Lehigh University)
Mohan Ramachandran (University of Buffalo, SUNY)
Harmonic functions, Kähler manifolds, and fundamental groups - II
Abstract

 

Sunday, September 23, 2012
09:30 - 10:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245

Session - Mini-cours / Mini-courses
Meeting room(s) : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Adrian Langer
(Warsaw University)
Logarithmic genera and the BMY-inequality - III
Abstract
11:00 - 11:15
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:15 - 12:15
Adrian Langer
(Warsaw University)
Logarithmic genera and the BMY-inequality - IV
Abstract
12:15 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30
Terrence Napier (Lehigh University)
Mohan Ramachandran (University of Buffalo, SUNY)
Harmonic functions, Kähler manifolds, and fundamental groups - III
Abstract
15:30 - 15:45
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:45 - 16:45
Terrence Napier (Lehigh University)
Mohan Ramachandran (University of Buffalo, SUNY)
Harmonic functions, Kähler manifolds, and fundamental groups - IV
Abstract

 

Monday, September 24, 2012
08:15 - 09:20
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)

Session - Atelier / Workshop
Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:20 - 09:30
Welcoming addresses
09:30 - 10:30
Madhav Nori
(University of Chicago)
Monodromy in algebraic geometry
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:45
Philippe Eyssidieux
(Institut Fourier )
Linear Shafarevich conjecture for compact kahler manifolds
Abstract
11:45 - 14:15
Lunch break
14:15 - 15:45

Short Communications
Abstract
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:15 - 17:00
Ludmil Katzarkov
(University of Miami)
Stability Hodge structures and applications
Abstract

 

Tuesday, September 25, 2012
08:15 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245

Session - Atelier / Workshop
Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Shreeram Abhyankar
(Purdue University)
Local fundamental groups of knots and Galois theory
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:15
Terrence Napier
(Lehigh University)
The Bochner-Hartogs dichotomy
Abstract
11:30 - 12:15
Mohan Ramachandran
(University of Buffalo, SUNY)
Vanishing theorems and ends of non-compact ball quotients
Abstract
12:15 - 15:00
Lunch break
15:00 - 15:45
Bruno de Oliveira
(University of Miami)
Topological/geometrical properties of closed symmetric differentials on surfaces
Abstract

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair 2012-2013
Meeting room(s) : 6214

16:00 - 17:00
Fedor Bogomolov
(Courant Institute of Mathematics, NYU)
Universal spaces in birational algebraic geometry
Abstract

 

Wednesday, September 26, 2012
08:15 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245

Session - Atelier / Workshop
Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Fabrizio Catanese
(Universität Bayreuth)
Topological methods in moduli theory
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:15
Adrian Langer
(Warsaw University)
Nef line bundles in positive characteristic
Abstract
11:30 - 12:15
Ryoichi Kobayashi
(Nagoya University)
Hamiltonian Kähler-Ricci flow, self-similar solutions and the Futaki invariant
Abstract
12:15 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30

Short Communications
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:45
Bangere Purnaprajna
(The University of Kansas)
Fundamental groups of algebraic surfaces with applications to holomorphic convexity
Abstract
17:00 - 17:45
JongHae Keum
(Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
Rational homology projective planes and Montgomery-Yang problem
Abstract

 

Thursday, September 27, 2012
08:15 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245

Session - Atelier / Workshop
Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Masayoshi Miyanishi
(Kwansei Gakuin University)
$\mathbb{A}^1$-fibrations and $\mathbb{A}^1_*$-fibrations on affine threefolds
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:15
Hubert Flenner
(Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Deformation equivalence of affine normal surfaces
Abstract
11:30 - 12:15
Mariusz Koras
(Warsaw University)
The Coolidge-Nagata conjecture
Abstract
12:15 - 15:00
Lunch break
15:00 - 15:45
Donu Arapura
(Purdue University)
Hodge theory of cyclic covers branched over a union of hyperplanes
Abstract

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair 2012-2013
Meeting room(s) : 6214

16:00 - 17:00
Fedor Bogomolov
(Courant Institute of Mathematics, NYU)
Several aspects of infinite transitivity
Abstract

 

Friday, September 28, 2012
08:15 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245

Session - Atelier / Workshop
Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Frédéric Campana
(Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1)
Gromov $h$-principle and special manifolds
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:15
Frank Kutzschebauch
(Universität Bern)
A solution to the Gromov-Vaserstein Problem
Abstract
11:30 - 12:15
Joerg Winkelmann
(Ruhr-Universität Bochum )
On a question of Kollar concerning the universal cover of singular varieties
12:15 - 15:00
Lunch break
15:00 - 15:45
Michael McQuillan
(IHÉS)
TBA

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair 2012-2013
Meeting room(s) : 6214

16:00 - 17:00
Fedor Bogomolov
(Courant Institute of Mathematics, NYU)
External and Internal Symmetries and their role in mathematics and nature
Abstract

17:00
Reception
Room(s) 6245

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