2025 Nairobi workshop in Algebraic Geometry - the 10th Anniversary Workshop

11-13 September (Pre-workshop School), 15-19 September (Workshop)

Department of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, Kenya

Organisers: Benjamin Kikwai (Machakos University), Damian Maingi (Catholic University of Eastern Africa), Geoffrey Mboya (IDEMS, Maseno University), Salash Nabaala (Florida State University), Jared Ongaro (University of Nairobi, Open University of Kenya), David Ssevviiri (Makerere University), Balázs Szendroi (University of Vienna)

Organised in partnership with the Clay Mathematics Institute and EAALG  

Part of the series Nairobi workshops in Algebraic Geometry, this meeting is supported by an LMS Mathematics in Africa Grant, the Clay Maths Institute, EMS CDC, ISP Uppsala University, and the University of Vienna

Speakers and talks (abstracts booklet, revised timetable)

• Ettore Aldrovandi (Florida State University, remote): Categorifying algebraic cycles and intersection theory

• Paolo Aluffi (Florida State University, remote): The Grothendieck class of the moduli space of pointed stable curves of genus 0 

• Olivia Caramello (Insubria, remote): Relative toposes for the working mathematician

• Ben Davison (Edinburgh): Graph polynomials and cohomology of algebraic varieties

• Andrés Jaramillo Puentes (Duisburg-Essen): Tropical enumerative geometry

• Annet Kyomuhangi (Busitema): On cohomology of line bundles on the incidence correspondence

• Brian Makonzi (Muni): Deformation of surfaces via reconstruction algebras of type A

• Francesco Malaspina (Politechnico di Torino): A quick journey on Ulrich and instanton bundles on projective varieties

• Damas Mgani (Dar es Salaam): Gluing categories and gluing functors

• Sophie Marques (Stellenbosch): Galois descent theorem in a general category

• Caroline Namanya (Makerere): Derived autoequivalences on algebraic flops

• Balazs Szendroi (Vienna): Around the coinvariant algebra

• Vincent Umutabazi (U Rwanda): Hyperplane arrangements and Schubert varieties

Breakout groups

• Sophie Marques, Damas Mgani and Salash Nabaala, Categorical approaches to algebraic geometry

• Francesco Malaspina and Damian Maingi, Vector bundles

• Ben Davison and David Ssevviiri, Non-commutative algebra and algebraic geometry

• Balazs Szendroi and Aurelio Carlucci, Classical algbraic geometry