Rationality and decomposition of the diagonal

College Seminar, Winter Semester 2016/2017

Meet Tuesdays 13:00-15:00 in 1.013.

Program

Full program here.


  • 19.10.2016: Talk 1: Introduction. Frank Gounelas

  • 26.10.2016: Talk 2: Luroth and rationality in low dimension. Irene Schwarz

  • 02.11.2016: Talk 3: Cubic threefolds I. Mara Ungureanu (Notes)

  • 09.11.2016: Talk 4: Cubic threefolds II. Ignacio Barros

  • 16.11.2016: Talk 5: Artin-Mumford. Wouter Zomervrucht

  • 23.11.2016: Talk 6: Kollar's paper. Tanya Kaushal

  • 07.12.2016: Talk 7: Introduction to Chow groups and decomposition of the diagonal. Antareep Mandal

  • 11.01.2017: Talk 8: Voisin's specialisation argument. Olof Bergvall (Notes)

  • 18.01.2017: Talk 9: Quartic double solids following Voisin. Marta Pieropan

  • 25.01.2017: Talk 10: Totaro on non-stably-rational hypersurfaces. Frank Gounelas

  • 01.01.2017: Talk 11: Hassett-Pirutka-Tschinkel I. Emre Sertoz

  • 15.02.2017: Talk 12: Hassett-Pirutka-Tschinkel II. Daniele Agostini