New Techniques in Birational Geometry
The conference “New Techniques in Birational Geometry” took place at Stony Brook University from April 7–11, 2015. It was centered around recent advances on birational invariants and rationality questions in algebraic geometry. The conference was preceded by a mini-school aimed at introducing graduate students and postdocs to the topics of the conference.
Mini-school:
April 6 (Monday)
Conference:
April 7–11 (ending at 1pm on Saturday)
The conference was organized by Radu Laza, Christian Schnell, Jason Starr, Claire Voisin, and Aleksey Zinger. Please click here to download the poster.
Here are the notes from the discussion session on Friday, and a list of exercises contributed by the conference speakers.
List of speakers
- Nicolas Addington (Duke University)
- Lev Borisov (Rutgers University)
- Sebastian Casalaina-Martin (University of Colorado)
- Ana-Maria Castravet (Northeastern University)
- Ivan Cheltsov (University Edinburgh)
- Olivier Debarre (École Normale Supérieure)
- Sergey Galkin (Higher School of Economics)
- Ludmil Katzarkov (University of Vienna)
- János Kollár (Princeton University)
- Alexander Kuznetsov (Russian Academy of Sciences)
- John Lesieutre (Institute for Advanced Study)
- Valery Lunts (Indiana University)
- Emanuele Macrì (Northeastern University)
- Alena Pirutka (École Polytechnique)
- Jason Starr (Stony Brook University)
- Paolo Stellari (University of Milan)
- Burt Totaro (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Yuri Tschinkel (Courant Institute)
- Claire Voisin (University of Paris)
Registered participants
- Michael Albanese (Stony Brook University)
- Kenneth Ascher (Brown University)
- Asher Auel (Yale University)
- Ivan Bazhov (IMJ, Paris)
- Harpreet Bedi (George Washington University)
- Roya Behesti (Washington University, St. Louis)
- Renee Bell (MIT)
- Harold Blum (University of Michigan)
- Federico Buonerba (NYU)
- Zeyu Cao (Stony Brook University)
- Saikat Chatterjee (IHES)
- Daniel Corey (Yale University)
- Omprokash Das (University of Utah)
- Anand Deopurkar (Columbia University)
- Ashwin Deopurkar (Columbia University)
- Hamed Farhadpour (Stony Brook University)
- Hang Fu (Courant Institute)
- Davide Fusi (The Ohio State University)
- Matthew Grimes (CU Boulder)
- Samuel Grushevsky (Stony Brook University)
- Weichen Gu (University of Michigan)
- Henri Guenancia (Stony Brook University)
- Changho Han (Harvard University)
- Alicia Harper (Brown University)
- Yoonsuk Hyun (KIAS)
- Johan de Jong (Columbia University)
- Ewan Johnstone (University of Liverpool)
- Hassan Jolany (University of Lille)
- Ljudmila Kamenova (Stony Brook University)
- Oleksandr Kravets (Columbia University)
- Igor Krylov (University of Edinburgh)
- Nikon Kurnosov (Higher School of Economics)
- Radu Laza (Stony Brook University)
- Robert Lazarsfeld (Stony Brook University)
- Christian Lehn (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
- Muxi Li (Washington University, St. Louis)
- Zhiyuan Li (Stanford University)
- Zhan Li (Johns Hopkins University)
- Hsueh-Yung Lin (CMLS Polytechnique)
- Yuchen Liu (Princeton University)
- Siddarth Mathur (University of Washington)
- Cristian Minoccheri (Stony Brook University)
- Howard Nuer (Rutgers University)
- Zsolt Patakfalvi (Princeton University)
- Alex Perry (Harvard)
- Irem Portakal (Freie Universität Berlin)
- Victor Przyjalkowski (Steklov Mathematical Institute)
- Jin Qian (New York University)
- Xuqiang Qin (Indiana University Bloomington)
- Dhruv Ranganathan (Yale University)
- Alice Rizzardo (University of Edinburgh)
- Paul Sacawa (University of Toronto)
- Giulia Saccà (Stony Brook University)
- Christian Schnell (Stony Brook University)
- Yehonatan Sella (UCLA)
- Akash Sengupta (Princeton University)
- Maxim Smirnov (ICTP)
- Jason Starr (Stony Brook University)
- Charles Stibitz (Princeton University)
- Jenia Tevelev (University of Massachussetts, Amherst)
- Zhiyu Tian (CNRS and IAS)
- Jeremy Usatine (Yale University)
- Charles Vial (IAS)
- Alan Marc Watson (University of Utah)
- Jakub Witaszek (Imperial College)
- Tian An Wong (CUNY Graduate Center)
- Xian Wu (University of Georgia)
- Hu Xuntao (Stony Brook University)
- David Yang (MIT)
- Dmitry Zakharov (New York University)
- Letao Zhang (Stony Brook University)
- Zheng Zhang (Stony Brook University)
- Dingxin Zhang (Stony Brook University)
- Shizhuo Zhang (Indiana University, Bloomington)
- Zili Zhang (Stony Brook University)
- Aleksey Zinger (Stony Brook University)
- Zhuang Ziquan (Princeton University)
Schedule of talks
Click on a speaker's name to watch a video recording of their talk. You can also download the schedule and the list of abstracts for the talks.
Except for the colloquium, all talks were in room 102 of the Simons Center.
Tuesday, April 7
| 08:00–09:00 | PROBLEM SESSION (for students) |
| 10:00–11:00 | Yuri Tschinkel |
| 11:00–11:30 | COFFEE |
| 11:30–12:30 | Ivan Cheltsov |
| 12:30–14:15 | LUNCH |
| 14:15–15:15 | Olivier Debarre |
| 15:30–16:00 | TEA |
| 16:00–17:00 | Alexander Kuznetsov |
Wednesday, April 8
| 08:30–09:30 | PROBLEM SESSION (for students) |
| 10:00–11:00 | Emanuele Macrì |
| 11:00–11:30 | COFFEE |
| 11:30–12:30 | Paolo Stellari |
| 12:30–14:15 | LUNCH |
| 14:15–15:15 | Lev Borisov |
| 15:30–16:00 | TEA |
| 16:00–17:00 | Ludmil Katzarkov |
Thursday, April 9
| 08:30–09:30 | PROBLEM SESSION (for students) |
| 10:00–11:00 | János Kollár |
| 11:00–11:30 | COFFEE |
| 11:30–12:30 | John Lesieutre |
| 12:30–14:15 | LUNCH |
| 14:15–15:15 | Ana-Maria Castravet |
| 15:30–16:00 | TEA |
| 16:00–17:00 | Claire Voisin (Colloquium, SCGP 103) |
Friday, April 10
| 08:30–09:30 | PROBLEM SESSION (for students) |
| 10:00–11:00 | Sebastian Casalaina-Martin |
| 11:00–11:30 | COFFEE |
| 11:30–12:30 | Alena Pirutka |
| 12:30–14:15 | LUNCH |
| 14:15–15:15 | Jason Starr |
| 15:30–16:00 | TEA |
| 16:00–17:00 | Burt Totaro |
| 17:15–18:15 | DISCUSSION SESSION (for everyone) |
Saturday, April 11
| 9:30–10:30 | Sergey Galkin |
| 10:30–10:45 | COFFEE |
| 10:45–11:45 | Valery Lunts |
| 12:00–13:00 | Nicolas Addington |
Conference location
All talks took place at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics.
Accomodations
The recommended hotel is the
Hilton Garden Inn on campus.
Other options are the
Holiday Inn Express and the
Three Village Inn
in Stony Brook, and
Danford's Hotel & Marina in Port Jefferson.
Transportation
The
Long Island Rail Road
connects Stony Brook to New York's Penn Station.
Click
here for walking directions from the LIRR station to the Simons Center.
For international travel, the recommended airport is
JFK;
from the airport, take the AirTrain (to Jamaica) and the Long Island Rail Road
(to Stony Brook).
Food
A convenient place for breakfast and lunch is the café inside the Simons Center. There are several other restaurants on and off campus, all within walking distance; click here for a list of places on campus, and here for the others.