GdT: Hodge atoms and irrationality of the very general cubic fourfold

We are organizing two seminar days dedicated to the recent work by Katzarkov, Kontsevich, Pantev and Yu. Discussion will be centered around the preprint  https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05105.

We will add more information here once the details are finalized.

DAY 1 - 11 December 2025 - JUSSIEU 15-25 101

Schedule:

• 9h00 - 10h30 : Talk 1 

• 11h00 - 12h30 : Talk 2 

• 15h30-17h00 : Talk 3 

The speakers are Felipe Espreafico, Jérémy Guéré, and Adrien Sauvaget. 

Note the Séminaire de Géometrie Algébrique de IMJ-PRG, which will take place from 14h00 to 15h00, with a talk by Andreas Höring.

DAY 2 - TBD: The second date (to be confirmed) will be in January.

Depending on hardware availability, we will broadcast the meeting on Zoom (a link will appear here)

For any question, do not hesitate to contact: 

Franco Giovenzana (franco dot giovenzana at universite-paris-saclay dot fr), or 

Franco Rota (franco dot rota at universite-paris-saclay dot fr).