2023 Fields Medal Symposium: Caucher Birkar

October 16 - 20, 2023, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Description

The 2023 Fields Medal Symposium will honour Caucher Birkar (Fields Medal 2018), and explore the current and potential impact of his work.

The Scientific Program is intended for a wide audience, including graduate students, mathematicians in other research areas, and scientists who use mathematics in an important way.

Registration Instruction:

Please register here for the Scientific Program.
Note that the registration for the Public Opening is separate.

Schedule

Monday, October 16th, 2023
09:30 to 09:45	Opening Remarks Kumar Murty, The Fields Institute and University of Toronto
09:45 to 10:45	Hodge theory and some questions about 2x2 matrices Daniel Litt, University of Toronto
10:45 to 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 to 12:15	Title TBA Vyacheslav Shokurov, Johns Hopkins University
12:15 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 15:00	Three-dimensional extremal contracƟons with 1-dimensional fibers Shigefumi Mori, Kyoto University
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break

Tuesday, October 17th, 2023
09:30 to 10:30	Title TBA Tommaso de Fernex
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	On algebraic subgroups of the Cremona group Enrica Floris
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 15:00	Title TBA Kristin DeVleming
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 16:30	Title TBA Alex Perry, University of Michigan

Wednesday, October 18th, 2023
09:30 to 10:30	The Calabi problem for Fano 3-folds Carolina Araujo, IMPA (Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Brazil)
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	Title TBA Kimoi Kemboi
12:00 to 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 to 14:30	The log minimal model program for excellent threefolds Joe Waldron, Michigan State University
14:30 to 15:30	On K-moduli spaces of Fano 3-folds Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros, Brunel University London
15:30 to 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 to 17:00	Title TBA David Stapleton

Thursday, October 19th, 2023
09:30 to 10:30	Higher rank finite generation and K-stability Chenyang Xu, Princeton University
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	Foliation Adjunction Paolo Cascini, Imperial College London
12:00 to 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 to 14:30	Title TBA Emelie Arvidsson, University of Utah
14:30 to 15:30	Birational complexity Joaquin Moraga
15:30 to 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 to 17:00	Title TBA Ziquan Zhuang, Johns Hopkins University

Friday, October 20th, 2023
09:30 to 10:30	Symmetries of Fano varieties Lena Ji, University of Michigan
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	Title TBA James McKernan, University of California at San Diego
12:00 to 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 to 14:30	Title TBA Caucher Birkar, University of Cambridge
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break

Registered Participants

Name	Affiliation
Lekan Adesina	Obafemi Awolowo University
Abir Alharbi	King Saud University
KWETI EMMANUEL AMABO
Carolina Araujo	IMPA (Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Brazil)
Emelie Arvidsson	University of Utah
Maryam Bayat	University of British Columbia
Caucher Birkar	University of Cambridge
Paolo Cascini	Imperial College London
Winfield Chen	Canoe Financial
Tommaso de Fernex
Kristin DeVleming	University of Massachusetts Amherst
Adama Diene	United Arab Emirates University
Nima Eslami	University of British Columbia
Bo Gao	University of Toronto
Yuanxin Guo	University of Toronto
Lena Ji	University of Michigan
Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros	Brunel University London
Kimoi Kemboi	IAS
Daniel Litt	University of Toronto
Yifan Li	Western University
James McKernan	University of California at San Diego
Soheil Memariansorkhabi	University of Toronto
Shigefumi Mori	Kyoto University
Alex Perry	University of Michigan
Amin Saeidi	University of Limpopo
Saqib Mushtaq Shah	Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore
Vyacheslav Shokurov	Johns Hopkins University
Komal Singla	Chandigarh University
David Stapleton
Austin Szuminsky	Brown University
Vladimir Vinogradov	Ohio University
AKUNGOIN PAULA VIZAS
Joe Waldron	Michigan State University
Chenyang Xu	Princeton University
Simon Xu	University of Toronto
Xue Ji Zhao	University of Toronto
Ziquan Zhuang	Johns Hopkins University