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Mathematics Institute

Gavin Brown

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Gavin Brown

Professor of Mathematics

Office: D2.07
Phone: +44 (0)24 76523595
Email: G dot Brown at warwick dot ac dot uk

Homepage: homepages.warwick.ac.uk/staff/G.Brown


Teaching Responsibilities 2019/20: None

Research Interests: Birational classification in algebraic geometry, including computer-assisted constructions and databases.

Some recent publications:

  1. Hodge numbers and deformations of Fano 3-folds, with Enrico Fatighenti.
    To appear in Documenta Math. (2020). (arXiv:1707.00653)

  2. Gorenstein Formats, Canonical and Calabi–Yau Threefolds, with Alexander Kasprzyk and Lei Zhu.
    To appear in Exp. Math. (2020). (arXiv:1409.4644)

  3. Gopakumar–Vafa invariants do not determine flops, with Michael Wemyss,
    Commun. Math. Phys. 361 (2018) 143–154.

  4. Fano 3-folds in P2 × P2 format, Tom and Jerry, with A.M. Kasprzyk and M.I. Qureshi,
    Eur. J. Math. 4 (Edge volume) (2018) 51–72.

  5. Polarized Calabi–Yau 3-folds in codimension 4, with Konstantinos Georgiadis,
    Mathematische Nachrichten 290:5–6 (2017), 710–725.

  6. Diptych varieties. II, Apolar varieties, with Miles Reid,
    Higher Dimensional Algebraic Geometry, Adv. Stud. in Pure Math. 74 (2017), 41–72.

  7. Four-dimensional projective orbifold hypersurfaces, with A. Kasprzyk,
    Experimental Mathematics 25:2 (2016), 176–193.

  8. Diptych varieties. I, with Miles Reid,
    Proc. London Math. Soc (3) 107 (2013), 1353–1394.