Varieties and Group Actions

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Start Date
2018-09-23 
End Date
2018-09-29 
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City
Warsaw 
Country
Poland 
Meeting Type
summer school, conference 
Homepage
https://www.impan.pl/~vat/warsaw.html 
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Description

Confirmed lecturers:

Ana-Maria Castravet (Northeastern University), title: Mori Dream Spaces and Blow-ups,
Michel Brion (Institut Fourier, Grenoble), title: Automorphism groups in algebraic geometry,
Zach Teitler (Boise University), title: Waring rank.

Organizers: Jarosław Buczyński (Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences), Nathan Ilten (Simon Fraser University), Tomasz Mańdziuk (University of Warsaw), Jarosław Wiśniewski (University of Warsaw)

The titles of lecture series are provisional.

The workshop (Thursday-Saturday) will be devoted to more advanced research topics presented by invited speakers and participants. Afternoons will be devoted to discussions groups. Possible subjects: Mori Dream Spaces, torus actions, homogeneous spaces, contact Fano manifolds, Hilbert schemes, rational curves on manifolds, secant varieties, tensor and Waring ranks with their applications.

The event is supported by the Banach Center, the Targeted Grant to Institutes of Simons Foundation and by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW).

It is a part of the Simons Semester VAT (Varieties and Transformations).

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