Graduate Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Tabes Bridges
UIC
An Introduction to the Minimal Model Program or: "Mommy, where do flips come from?"
Abstract: I will recall the notion of a minimal algebraic surface and how one "runs the MMP" in the surface case. I will then outline the difficulties that arise starting in dimension $3$, state some of the basic structural theorems, and describe some of the ideas due to Mori, Shokurov, etc. which help to circumvent those difficulties.
Monday April 18, 2016 at 4:00 PM in SEO 712