Workshop

• Monday 11th September 2006
  4:00 Miles Reid (Warwick): Introduction to constructing algebraic varieties

• Tueday 12th September 2006
  11:00 Gavin Brown (Kent): Unprojection and applications
  4:00 Alvaro Nolla (Warwick): Introduction to Quotient singularities

• Wednesday 13th September 2006
  11:00 Alastair Craw (Glasgow): Quiver representations in algebraic geometry
  4:00 Balazs Szendroi (Oxford): TBA

• Thursday 14th September 2006
  11:00 Stephen Coughlan (Warwick): Key varieties and surfaces with p_g = 1, K² =2,
  2:00 Alessio Corti (Imperial): Higher dimensional flips
  3:30 Cristina Lopez (Salamanca): Fourier-Mukai transforms for singular schemes
  5:00 Tom Coates (Imperial), (1): the quantum orbifold cohomology of weighted projective spaces
  6:00 Party/Dinner

• Friday 15th September 2006
  11:00 Miles Reid (Warwick): Diptych varieties
  2:00 Tom Coates, (Imperial) (2): Gromov-Witten invariants of weighted projective hypersurfaces

This is an informal activity to introduce new graduate students to open problems in Algebraic Geometry. Another purpose of the meeting is to plan for next year's Algebraic Geometry symposium WAG07-08 (details to be announced shortly). I expect Gavin Brown (Kent), Tom Coates (Imperial), Alessio Corti (Imperial), Ali Craw (Glasgow), Cristina Lopez (Salamanca), Balazs Szendroi (Oxford) for some of the time.

Anyone welcome; let me know if you want accommodation or need travel expenses (no guarantees). Please e-mail mrc@maths.warwick.ac.uk so that we can estimate the numbers involved.

• COW/LMS Spitalfields day: Aspects of geometry
  Wed 27 Sep 2006, Oxford
  speakers: David Mumford (Brown) and Bernd Sturmfels (Berkeley)
  See http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/~szendroi/spitalfields.html

LINKS:

Aspects of geometry http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/~szendroi/spitalfields.html

COW http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/Seminars/COW.html

LMS Spitalfields Days http://www.lms.ac.uk/meetings/spitalfields.html