Birational geometry of surfaces and combinatorics
Speaker:
Valery Alexeev, University of Georgia
Date and Time:
Wednesday, June 20, 2018 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Location:
Earth Sciences Centre, room B149
Abstract:
I will discuss the peculiar combinatorics of singular surfaces appearing in the Minimal Model Program, including Shokurov's DCC conjectures and the recent results on volumes of log surfaces of general type and their accumulation points.
