MMPS--The Minimal Model Program Seminar, Spring 2007

The seminar will be in Room 4-145 at MIT on Thursdays at 3 pm.

Welcome to MMPS Spring 2007!

The schedule for the Clay Workshop

Wednesday May 16

2-3:15 pm James McKernan, Existence of flips I

3:45-5 pm Christopher Hacon, Existence of flips II

Thursday May 17

2-3:15 pm Christopher Hacon, MMP with scaling I

3:45-5 pm James McKernan, MMP with scaling II

The talks will be at the Clay Mathematics Institute. Please also note the talks by Corti and Mori at the Clay Research Conference. html

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The purpose of this seminar is to learn some of the recent developments in the Minimal Model Program. The work of Christopher Hacon, James McKernan and their collaborators have led to major advances in the program. We will read through some of their recent papers.

The seminar will culminate in a two day workshop run by the Clay Mathematics Institute.

The Clay Mathematics Institute will run a two day workshop on MMP

The workshop is scheduled to take place at the Clay Institute 2-5 pm. on Wednesday May 16 and Thursday May 17. Christopher Hacon and James McKernan will give a series of lectures. Corti and Mori will also be in town that week. They will give lectures in the Clay Research Conference May 14-15. For more details please also consult html

The schedule

The seminar will take place at 3:00-4:00 on Thursdays.

Note that there will be two special seminars in algebraic geometry: On Wednesday February 21 at 3 pm in MIT room 4-265 James McKernan and on Thursday February 22 at 3 pm in MIT room 4-237 Christopher Hacon will speak about Finite Generation of Canonical Rings I and II, respectively.

February 6 Harvard Organizational meeting
February 15 Brian MIT
February 22 Go to talks by Hacon, McKernan MIT
March 1 Craig MIT
March 8 Dawei MIT
March 15 David MIT
March 22 Corina MIT
March 29 NO SEMINAR HARVARD-MIT SPRING BREAK
April 5 Claire Voisin Harvard Colloquium
April 12 Dawei MIT
April 19 David MIT
April 26 Maksym Harvard 2pm (Note unusual time and place)
May 3 Harvard Title TBA
May 10 TBA MIT Title TBA

Suggested reading list

  • Kollár and Mori, Birational geometry of algebraic varieties, Cambridge Tracts in Math 134.

  • O. Debarre, Higher dimensional algebraic geometry. Universitext, Springer.

  • Alessio Corti, et. al., Flips for threefolds and fourfolds. html
    • Download this book before it disappears!!!

  • C. Birkar, P. Cascini, C. D. Hacon, J. McKernan, Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type. pdf

  • C. Hacon, J. McKernan, On the existence of flips. pdf

  • C. Hacon, J. McKernan, Shokurov's Rational Connectedness Conjecture. pdf

  • C. Hacon, J. McKernan, Boundedness of pluricanonical maps of varieties of general type. pdf