[geometry-ml:03117] MS seminar at Kavli IPMU -- Roberto Svaldi (U of Cambridge/SISSA) -- Oct 31, 2017

[Todor Milanov]

Dear all,

I would like to announce the following Mathematics and String theory seminar at Kavli IPMU 

Speaker: Roberto Svaldi (U of Cambridge / SISSA)
Date:	Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

Title: Towards birational boundedness of elliptic Calabi-Yau varieties

Abstract: I will discuss new results towards the birational boundedness of 
low-dimensional elliptic Calabi-Yau varieties, joint work with Gabriele
Di Certo. Recent work in the minimal model program suggests that pairs with trivial log canonical 
class should satisfy some boundedness properties. I will show that 4-dimensional Calabi-Yau pairs which are not birational to a product are indeed log birationally bounded. This implies birational boundedness of elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds with a section, in dimension up to 5.
The talk will start with a gentle introduction to some of the ideas and techniques from
the birational classification of algebraic varieties and in particular from the Minimal
Model Program.






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Todor Eliseev Milanov
Associate Professor 
Kavli IPMU,  Japan

todor.milanov ＠ ipmu.jp