Artie Prendergast-Smith

MSCS, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Email: artie at math dot uic dot edu
Tel: +1–312–413–3749

Teaching Spring 2012: Math 310, MWF1 AH302 (Solutions to midterms); Math 553, MWF9 TH320.

Office hours Spring 2012: MWF 10–11, SEO 404

Previous Teaching.



Research interests: Algebraic geometry, especially birational geometry and minimal model theory.

Papers:
[5] (with N. Broomhead) Partially ample line bundles on toric varieties, preprint.
[4] The cone conjecture for abelian varieties, submitted.
[3] Finiteness results for 3-folds with semiample anticanonical bundle, preprint.
[2] The cone conjecture for some rational elliptic threefolds, Math. Z., to appear.
[1] Extremal rational elliptic threefolds, Michigan Math. J. 59 (2010), 535–572.

Unpublished:
[3] Examples of finite generation of the Cox ring, August 2009.
[2] Extremal rational elliptic threefolds, Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge, April 2009.
[1] The cone of curves of the blowup of P2 in 9 general points, January 2007.

Curriculum vitae


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Schoolmaster: ‘Suppose x is the number of sheep in the problem.’
Pupil: ‘But Sir, suppose x is not the number of sheep.’
(I asked Prof. Wittgenstein was this not a profound philosophical joke, and he said it was.)
— J.E. Littlewood