The UM/OSU Weekend Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Columbus, OH, February 8-9, 2003

The seminar is preceded by William Fulton's Zassenhaus Lectures.

Speakers

Lawrence Ein (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago)
Bounds for log canonical thresholds with applications to birational rigidity
János Kollár (Princeton)
Rationally connected varieties over finite fields (abstract)
Mircea Mustata (Clay Mathematics Institute Fellow)
Contact Loci in Arc Spaces
Markus Rost (Ohio State)
Cobordism and Galois Cohomology (abstract)

Talks

Saturday Feb. 8 11:30 am - 12:30 pm MA 240 (Lawrence Ein)
Saturday Feb. 8 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm MA 240 (Mircea Mustata)
Saturday Feb. 8 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm MA 240 (Markus Rost)
Sunday Feb. 9 10:30 am - 11:30 am MA 240 (János Kollár)

Location

Lecture Room of the MBI (MA 240). It is easy to reach from floor 2 of the Math Tower.

Conference Buffet Dinner

There will be a buffet dinner on Saturday for participants and their partners starting between 6:30 and 7 pm at Herb Clemens' house. Address and directions will be given on Saturday.


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