Aula Magna, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica,

Università di Catania

Monday, September 17th, 2012

9:00- 9:30 - Opening

9:30-10:15 - Olivier Debarre "On the period maps of some Fano varieties"

10:30-11:15 - Flaminio Flamini "Rank 2 vector bundles and surface scrolls on a general curve"

Coffee break

12:00-12:45 - Jarosław Antoni Wiśniewski "Coordinate rings of resolutions of quotient singularities and other things that I learned at Pragmatic"

Lunch

15:00-15:45 - Francesco Russo "15 years of OADP varieties"

16:00-16:45 - Jürgen Herzog "On the stable set of associated prime ideals of an ideal"

17:00-17:45 - Ralf Fröberg "The Waring problem for polynomial rings and power ideals"

Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

9:30-10:15 - Ciro Ciliberto "Gonality of nodal curves on K3 surfaces"

10:30-11:15 - Kristian Ranestad "The variety of polar simplices and beyond"

Coffee break

12:00-12:45 - Rosa Miró-Roig "The representation type of a projective variety"

Lunch

15:00-15:45 - Filippo Viviani "Autoduality and Fourier-Mukai for degenarations of Jacobians"

16:00-16:45 - Massimiliano Mella "Ten years of equivalent birational embeddings "

Social dinner

Wednesday, September 19th, 2012

9:30-10:15 - Fyodor Zak "Varieties of small codimension in projective space: multisecants and normality"

10:30-11:15 - Alessandro Verra "Ramification and antiramification of the Prym map in genus 6 and the slope of A_5"

Coffee break

12:00-12:45 - Laura Costa "GL(V)-invariant Ulrich bundles on Grassmannians of lines"

Lunch

15:00-15:45 - Paltin Ionescu "On defective manifolds"

16:00-16:45 - Chris Peterson "Computing Intersection numbers of Chern classes through homotopy continuation"