Thu 7th-Tue 12th Feb 2008 "Algebraic surfaces and symplectic 4-manifolds" First draft program (subject to revision) Thu 7th Feb 9:00 my MA505 lecture in B3.03 Thu 13:40 Geometry and Topology Seminar in Room B1.01 Gabriele Mondello (Imperial) Triangulated Riemann surfaces and the Weil-Petersson Poisson structure Thu 15:00 in B1.01 graduate lecture: Stephen Coughlan, Key variety for surfaces with pg = 1, K2 = 2 Thu 16:30 in B1.01 First conference lecture: Ingrid Bauer (Bayreuth) Fundamental groups of quotients of products of curves, and some surfaces with pg = q = 0 18:30 Buffet dinner in common room Fri 8th Feb 10:00-11:00 (sharp) in B1.01 Fabrizio Catanese, Moduli spaces of bidouble covers of the quadric. Deformation types, differentiable types, braid monodromy types and symplectic types (I) N.B. must finish on time Fri 12:00 in B3.02 Christian Liedtke: Classification of surfaces on the Noether lines in positive characteristic Fri 14:00 in B1.01 Mohammed Abouzaid: Tropical geometry and the symplectic geometry of hypersurfaces in toric varieties Fri 16:00 in B3.02 Colloq. PARK Jong-il, New symplectic 4-manifolds and algebraic surfaces 17:15 Wine and snacks in common room 19:00 Ally's Balti (Indian restaurant) Sat 9th Feb 10:30 in B3.02 Ernesto Mistretta: Surfaces with chi = 1 and isotrivial fibrations 12:00 in B3.02 KEUM JongHae: Cyclic quotients of fake projective planes lunch at Wing Wah Sun 10th Feb possible trip to Stratford or Warwick Mon 11:00-12:00 (sharp) in MS.04 LEE Yongnam, A simply connected surface of general type with pg=0 and K2=2, I Mon 12:00 in B3.02 Michael Loenne, Moduli spaces of bidouble covers of the quadric. Deformation types, differentiable types, braid monodromy types and symplectic types (II) Mon 14:00 in B3.02 Stavros Papadakis: Unprojection and surfaces with pg = 5, K2 = 12 Mon 17:00 in B3.02 PARK Jong-Il, A simply connected surface of general type with pg=0 and K2=2, II Mon 19:00 Conference dinner in Clarendon Arms Hotel Tue 9:00 my MA505 lecture in B3.03 Tue 10:30 in B1.01 Margarida Mendes Lopes: Fundamental group of surfaces with K2 < 3 chi Tue 12:00 in B1.01 Elisa Tenni: Surfaces with general pencils of genus 5 and 7 13:00 Guerrilla Lunch in common room Fri 15th Feb 16:00 Dept Colloq. Fabrizio Catanese, A packing problem for automorphisms of Riemann surfaces and the slope of Kodaira fibrations Thu 7th-Tue 12th Feb 2008 "Algebraic surfaces and symplectic 4-manifolds" This is a weekend workshop on recent progress on algebraic surfaces and symplectic 4-manifolds. Topics include the recent construction of surfaces of general type with pg = 0 by deformation of symplectic fibrations, the geometry of fibred surfaces, commutative algebra and computer algebra methods, etc. Confirmed participants include Mohammed Abouzaid, Ingrid Bauer, Gavin Brown, Fabrizio Catanese, Alessio Corti, Simon Donaldson, KEUM JongHae, LEE Yongnam, Christian Liedtke, Cristina Lopez, Diane Maclagan, Michael Loenne, Margarida Mendes Lopes, Ernesto Mistretta, Jorge Neves, Dmitri Panov, Stavros Papadakis, PARK Jongil, Fabio Perroni, Roberto Pignatelli, Francesco Polizzi, Rares Rasdeaconu, Miles Reid, Ivan Smith, Francesco Zucconi graduate students 8 or 10 from UK, Stephen Coughlan, Elisa Tenni, Matteo Penegini, Nils Rasmussen, NITTA Yasufumi, please register online at https://www.warwick.ac.uk/mrc/events.php graduate activities Thu 7th Feb First conference talk Thu 7th Feb 4-5 about 12 talks on Fri, Sat and Mon Tue 12th Feb 12-1