Conference Program

Speakers

Nero Budur
Tommaso de Fernex
Robin Hartshorne
Shihoko Ishii
János Kollár
Robert Lazarsfeld

Ngaiming Mok
Mircea Mustaţă
Mihai Păun
Yum-Tong Siu
Karen Smith
Claire Voisin

Schedule

Thursday May 12 — Talks at Lecture Center F3
1:30	Registration and coffee (at SEO 300)
2:15	Opening remarks
2:30-3:00	Robert Lazarsfeld	A survey of Ein's mathematical work
3:30-4:30	Robin Hartshorne	Simple D-module components of local cohomology modules
5:00-6:00	Robert Lazarsfeld	Measures of irrationality for hypersurfaces of large degree
Friday May 13 — Talks at Lecture Center C4
9:00	Coffee (at SEO 300)
9:30-10:30	Yum-Tong Siu	Revisiting Analytic Methods for Algebraic Geometric Problems
11:00-12:00	Mihai Păun	Singular Hermitian metrics on vector bundles and extension of pluricanonical forms
2:30-3:30	Ngaiming Mok	Geometric substructures on uniruled projective manifolds
4:00-5:00	Claire Voisin	Cubic fourfolds and O'Grady 10-dimensional examples
Saturday May 14 — Talks at Lecture Center C4
9:00	Coffee (at SEO 300)
9:30-10:30	Karen Smith	Abhyankar valuations in prime characteristic
11:00-12:00	Nero Budur	Cohomology jump loci
2:30-3:30	Shihoko Ishii	Generic residual intersections and its applications
4:00-5:00	János Kollár	Celestial surfaces
Sunday May 15 — Talks at Lecture Center C4
9:00	Coffee (at SEO 300)
9:30-10:30	Mircea Mustaţă	Hodge ideals and applications
11:00-12:00	Tommaso de Fernex	Towards a link theoretic characterization of smoothness

Venue

The conference is being held at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). On Thursday the talks will take place at Lecture Center F3, and on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday they will take place at Lecture Center C4. Registration and morning coffee will take place at SEO 300. A map of UIC's campus can be found here.

Conference Banquet

A dinner in honor of Lawrence Ein will be held on Saturday, May 14, at 7pm. It will take place at Ming Hin (in its Chinatown location). Registered participants will receive further information about the banquet via email.

Information

Registration

Please take a few moments to register here. Early registration will help us in our organizing efforts.

Financial Support

Limited financial support was made available primarily for graduate students, new Ph.D.s, and mathematicians from underrepresented groups without external support. The deadline for applying for financial support was March 1, 2016.

After the conference, please visit here to begin the reimbursement process.

Lodging

If you are a speaker, or have been granted financial support for lodging, we will make lodging arrangements for you and will contact you to provide further details as the conference approaches. Other participants will need to make their own reservations. Here are some hints:

We strongly advise that you make hotel reservations as early as possible.
Search engines such as hotels.com or orbitz.com provide a good source of options, and often have discounted rates if you pay in advance. Before booking, it is worth calling the hotel directly to see if they offer a "State of Illinois" or "UIC" room rate.
The UIC Admissions Website is a good resource for detailed information on arranging your trip to UIC. In particular, directions on how to access UIC by Mass Transit are available. Note that cheaper accomodations can often be found outside the city center.
If you have problems finding a room at an affordable price, or have questions about the feasibility of a hotel, don't hesitate to contact us: ein60@math.uic.edu.

Oganization

To contact the organizers use the email address ein60@math.uic.edu.

Organizers: Nero Budur, Tommaso de Fernex, Roi Docampo, and Kevin Tucker.

You can download the conference poster here. Feel free to post it in your department.

Participant support provided by NSF via the RTG grant DMS-1246844.

Installations provided by the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).