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Moduli of algebraic varieties

Speaker: Caucher Birkar (Tsinghua University, Fields Medalist)
Time: Nov 29, 2022, 16:00-17:00
Location: Zoom ID 920 7313 5240, Passcode 973824

Abstract: In this talk I will define stable varieties of non-negative Kodaira dimension and then describe results on existence of moduli spaces and their compactifications for such varieties in any dimension.

Biography

Caucher Birkar is a professor at the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University. His research area is algebraic geometry. In 2018, Prof. Caucher Birkar was awarded the Fields medal, the highest honor for mathematicians, for his works on boundedness of Fano varieties and the minimal model program.