2007–2008 Warwick EPSRC Symposium on Algebraic Geometry

WAG 07–08

Main organisers: Miles Reid, Alessio Corti (Imperial)

Co-organisers: Gavin Brown (Kent), Gavril Farkas (Austin Texas and Humboldt U Berlin), Frank Schreyer (Saarbruecken), Samir Siksek (Warwick), Katrin Wendland (Augsburg) and many others

There have been 3 previous Warwick EPSRC symposia devoted to algebraic geometry, in 1970-71 (led by David Mumford) and in 1982-83 and 1995-96 (led by Miles Reid). WAG07-08 also follows the Isaac Newton Institute program HDG02.

Calendar of Events (Miles's calendar details)

September–December 2007 Active period HD MMP Organisers: Corti and Reid

(PDF Document) PROGRAMME for the below three September 2007 meetings

Monday 3rd–Friday 7th September 2007
Introduction to explicit methods in algebraic geometry (XPL)
An introductory workshop run in collaboration with the long-running Polish September algebraic geometry school
Organisers: Buczynski, Langer, Reid, Wisniewski
Abstract
Monday 10th–Saturday 15th September 2007
Introductory workshop on Higher Dimensional Minimal Model Program (HD MMP)
Organisers: Corti and Reid
Monday 17th–Wednesday 19th September 2007
Research workshop – Toric degenerations, tropical geometry and mirror symmetry
Thursday 1–Tuesday 6 November 2007 (Register here)
Introduction to the recent breakthroughs in HD MMP ( Programme)
Organisers: Corti and Reid
Wednesday 12th–Wednesday 19th December 2007
HD MMP Workshop ( Programme)
Organisers: Corti, McKernan and Reid

Monday 7th–Friday 11th January 2008
UK-Japan Winter School Algebraic and Symplectic Geometry
Organised in collaboration with Keio University COE21

January–April 2008 Active period XPL Organisers: Reid, Brown, Corti, Farkas
with one or more weekend conferences during term time on specialised topics (such as surfaces of general type)

Thursday 7th–Tuesday 12th February 2008
Algebraic surfaces and symplectic 4-manifolds (Programme)
Thursday 13th–Tuesday 18th March 2008
Weekend workshop: Explicit methods for 3-folds

15th February – 20th April 2008 Active period Geometry and topological field theories (TQFT)
Organisers: K. Wendland, R. Donagi, C. Hertling and N. Hitchin

Monday 24th-Saturday 29th March 2008
Spring school on the geometry and integrability of topological QFT and string theory
Monday 31st March–Saturday 5th April 2008
Conference on Geometry and topological field theories
Monday 7th–Friday 11th April 2008
Course of 10 lectures
by Okounkov at Imperial College, London

April–June 2008 Active period in arithmetic geometry (ARITH) Organisers: Siksek, Colliot-Thélène, Skorobogatov, Stoll

Monday 14th-Friday 18th April 2008
Instructional Workshop on Surfaces: Geometry and Arithmetic Programme
Organisers: Martin Bright, Ronald van Luijk, Samir Siksek, Damiano Testa
Monday 16th–Friday 20th June 2008
Rational points on curves and higher dimensional varieties Programme
Organisers: Siksek, Colliot-Thélène, Skorobogatov, Stoll

May–June 2008 Active period Commutative algebra, complexes and applications of computer algebra (COM)
Organisers: by Reid, Brown, Eisenbud and Schreyer

Tuesday 27th May–Tuesday 3rd June 2008
COM workshop
Organisers: Reid, Brown, Eisenbud and Schreyer

June–July 2008 Active period Moduli spaces (MOD)
Organisers: Reid, Farkas, Mukai, Sankaran and Shepherd-Barron

Monday 7th–Friday 11th July 2008
MOD workshop
Organisers: Reid, Farkas, Mukai, Sankaran and Shepherd-Barron
Monday 21st–Friday 25th July 2008
Concluding WAG 07-08 conference
Organiser: Reid