UConn 2010
The Fall 2010 workshop took place at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Connecticut on September 24-26. Organizers: Arend Bayer and Milena Hering. This conference was supported by the NSF (Grant DMS-0963782) and the University of Connecticut (Department of Mathematics and Office of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences).The conference attracted about 120 participants.Speakers:Jan Denef (Leuven)
Paul Hacking (UMass Amherst)
Stefan Kebekus (Freiburg)
Allen Knutson (Cornell)
János Kollár (Princeton)
Robert Lazarsfeld (Michigan)
Davesh Maulik (MIT)
Yu-jong Tzeng (Harvard)
Lecture notes:
You can still find the abstracts of the talks.
Professional Development Event: Bill Fulton (Michigan) gave a talk on communicating mathematics.
Poster session: We had a poster session with 5 poster presenters.
Poster: Please have a look at our beautiful poster.
Pretalks: There will be three pretalks, exclusively for graduate students, with a focus on birational geometry.
About AGNES
AGNES is a new series of weekend workshops in algebraic geometry. One of our goals is to introduce graduate students to a broad spectrum of current research in algebraic geometry. AGNES is held biannually at the participating universities in the Northeast.
Scientific Committee:
Dan Abramovich (Brown), Joe Harris (Harvard), Aise Johan de Jong (Columbia),
Mikhail Kapranov (Yale), János Kollár (Princeton), James McKernan (MIT)
Organizing committee:
Arend Bayer (UConn), Sam Grushevsky (Stony Brook), Paul Hacking (UMass Amherst),
Milena Hering (UConn), Jason Starr (Stony Brook), Jenia Tevelev (UMass Amherst).