Departments of Mathematics
CIT UCI UCLA UCR UCSB UCSC USC

Southern California Algebraic Geometry Workshop

UC Santa Barbara, November 4th, 2000
(First announcement)

Tentative Program:

10:30 a.m. Chris Hacon, UCR: On the birational geometry of irregular varieties.

11:30-1:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m. Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk, Purdue University: Algebraic Morse Theory and Factorization of Birational Maps.

2:20 p.m. Jiyuan Lin, UCSB: Birational unboundedness of Fano threefolds.

3:40pm M. Yotov, UCI: Algebro geometric methods in sympectic topology.

5:00 p.m. Kate Stevenson, Pomona College: Covers of lines and planes.

Organized by: M.C. Chang (UC Riverside), M.Fried (UC Irvine),
L.Katzarkov (UC Irvine), J. M^cKernan (UCSB), R.Pandharipande (CIT), Z. Ran (UC Riverside).

Location: Department of Mathematics, Girvetz room # 2108., UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California, 93105.

Additional Information - see:

http://math.ucsb.edu/~mckernan/meeting_november.html

Contacts: mckernan@math.ucsb.edu, agboola@math.ucsb.edu