The goal of this workshop is to learn about the following recent papers
University of Utah, November 22-24, 2013
All talks are in LCB Builing of the Math Department, Room 225. During the weekend the glass door will be closed but the main door on the front of the building will be open.
Please refer to the interactive campus map to locate the LCB Building as well as the University Guest House.
To reach campus or the Guest House from the airport, taxis are about $25. Alternatively, there is the Trax (a city train) which run from the airport to downton, where you change to another Trax train that brings you to campus and the Guest House (please refer to the above link, or to the map at the Trax station for directions).
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Fri Nov 22 | ||
| 3:00-4:00 | Mircea Mustata | The Noether-Castelnuovo theorem, I |
| 4:00-4:30 | Coffee break | |
| 4:30-5:30 | Karl Schwede | The Noether-Castelnuovo theorem, II |
| Sat Nov 23 | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Coffee and pastries | |
| 9:30-10:30 | Tommaso de Fernex | Algebraic families of Cremona transformations |
| 11:00-12:00 | Mladen Bestvina | Gromov hyperbolic spaces |
| 12:00-2:00 | Lunch break | |
| 2:00-3:00 | Jérémy Blanc | Topologies and structures of the Cremona group, I |
| 3:00-3:30 | Coffee break | |
| 3:30-4:30 | Stéphane Lamy | Normal subgroups in the Cremona group, I |
| Sun Nov 24 | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Coffee and pastries | |
| 9:30-10:30 | Jérémy Blanc | Topologies and structures of the Cremona group, II |
| 11:00-12:00 | Stéphane Lamy | Normal subgroups in the Cremona group, II |
There is no formal registration, everyone is welcome to attend. Please contact Tommaso de Fernex if you would like to participate and are not from Utah