Mathematic Division, National Center for Theoretical Science at Taipei

Workshop on Higher Dimensional Algebraic Geometry

Place: National Taiwan University

2004/3/22 (Monday)         

Dr. Poe Lecture Hall, Inst. of Atomic and Molecular Sciences

09:00-10:00    Registration and reception

10:00-11:00    Miles Reid (Warwick Univ. U.K.)               

                         Constructing algebraic surfaces via commutative algebra                      
11:00-13:30    Lunch Break

13:30-14:30    Chin-Lung Wang (Nat'l Central Univ., Taiwan)

                         Quasi-Hodge metrics and canonical singularities.
15:00-16:00    Florin Ambro (RIMS, Japan)

                         Saturated algebras on toric varieties
　

2004/3/23 (Tuesday)     

Dr. Poe Lecture Hall, Inst. of Atomic and Molecular Sciences

09:00-09:30    Registration and reception

09:30-10:30    James McKernan (UC Santa Barbara, U.S)

                         Threefold Thresholds

10:30-11:00    Tea break

11:00-12:00    Masayuki Kawakita (Tokyo Univ., Japan)

                         A remark on minimal logarithmic discrepancies

12:00-14:00    Lunch break
14:00-15:00    Massimiliano Mella (Ferrara Univ., Italy)

                         Singularities of linear systems and the Waring problem

15:00-15:30    Tea break
15:30-16:30    I-Hsun Tsai (Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)

                         Effectivity results on rationality theorem and cone Theorem
　

2004/3/24 (Wednesday)   

A trip to Taroko national park.

2004/3/25 (Thusday)

Dr. Poe Lecture Hall, Inst. of Atomic and Molecular Sciences

09:30-10:00    Registration and reception
10:00-11:00    Mihnea Popa (Harvard Univ., U.S.)

                         Asymptotic intersection numbers and restricted volumes

11:00-13:30    Lunch break

* Room 308 New Math Building *
13:30-14:30    Steven Lu (Essen Univ., )

                         A canonical fibration for compact complex manifold via orbifolds

14:30-15:00    Tea break
15:00-16:00    Shengli Tan (ECNU China/ Essen Univ., Germany)

                         Multiple linear systems, Seshadri constants and curves with prescribed singularities and positions

18:00-21:00    Conference Banquet

2004/3/26 (Friday)

Dr. Poe Lecture Hall, Inst. of Atomic and Molecular Sciences

09:00-09:30    Registration and reception

09:30-10:30    Roberto Pignatelli (Trento Univ., Italy)

                         Graded rings and a question of Horikawa

10:30-11:00    Tea break
11:00-12:00    Shigeru Mukai (RIMS, Japan)

                         Invariant ring of Nagata type and a threefold of type \tilde{E₇}.
　

2004/3/27 (Saturday)

Dr. Poe Lecture Hall, Inst. of Atomic and Molecular Sciences

09:00-09:30    Registration and reception

09:30-10:30    Ching-Li Chai (U. Penn, U.S. /NCTS)

                         Hecke orbits

10:30-11:00    Tea break

11:00-12:00    Osamu Fujino (IAS, U.S. / Nagoya Univ., Japan)

                         On termination of 4-fold semi-stable log flips
12:00-14:00    Lunch break

14:00-15:00    Gavril Farkas (Princeton Unv., U.S.)

                         K3 sections and the effective cone of the moduli space of curves

15:00-15:30    Tea break
15:30-16:30    Ngaiming Mok (Hong Kong Univ., Hong Kong)

                         Geometry of minimal rational curves on Fano manifolds of Picard number 1.