| Monday | August 22 | | |
| 8:30-9 | Welcome and registration | Allan Barton Forum, CBE Building 26C |
| 9-10 | Burt Totaro (UCLA) | Rationality does not specialize among terminal varieties |
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| 10-10:30 | Coffee | |
| 10:30-11:30 | Klaus Hulek (Hannover) | Complete moduli of cubic threefolds |
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| 11:45-12:45 | Ana-Maria Castravet (Northeastern) | Derived category of moduli spaces of pointed stable rational curves |
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| 12:45-2:30 | Lunch break | |
| 2:30-3:30 | François Charles (Paris-Sud) | Bertini irreducibility theorems in arithmetic
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| 3:30-4 | Coffee | |
| 4-5 |
Daniel Chan (UNSW) | Moduli stacks of Serre stable representations |
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| 5-6:30 | Welcome reception | Wig & Pen, Llewellyn Hall, William Herbert Pl | |
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| Tuesday | August 23 | | |
| 9-10 | Sándor Kovács (Washington) | On the boundedness of slc surfaces of general type |
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| 10-10:30 | Coffee | |
| 10:30-11:30 | Peter O'Sullivan (ANU) | Universal principal bundles over a scheme |
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| 11:45-12:45 | Emanuele Macri (Northeastern) | Bridgeland stability for semiorthogonal decompositions |
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| 12:45-2:30 | Lunch break | |
| 2:30-3:30 | Michael Kemeny (Humboldt/Stanford) | Betti numbers of canonical curves and Hurwitz spaces |
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| 3:30-4 | Coffee | |
| 4-5 |
Jochen Heinloth (Essen) | A stack theoretic GIT criterion to construct separated coarse moduli |
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| Wednesday | August 24 | | |
| 9-10 | Michel Brion (Institut Fourier) | Commutative algebraic groups up to isogeny |
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| 10-10:30 | Coffee | |
| 10:30-11:30 | Jason Starr (Stony Brook) | Spaces of Rational Curves and Varieties in Positive Characteristic |
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| 11:45-12:45 | Daniel Murfet (Melbourne) | Generalised orbifolding of simple singularities |
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| Free afternoon | |
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| Thursday | August 25 | | |
| 9-10 | Valery Alexeev (Georgia) | Generalizations of Losev-Manin moduli spaces |
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| 10-10:30 | Coffee | |
| 10:30-11:30 | Ruibin Zhang (Sydney) | Invariant theory of classical supergroups |
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| 11:45-12:45 | Dawei Chen (BC) | Compactification of strata of abelian differentials |
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| 12:45-2:30 | Lunch break | |
| 2:30-3:30 | Benjamin Bakker (Humboldt/Georgia)
| The birational geometry of complex ball quotients |
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| 3:30-4 | Coffee | |
| 4-5 |
Eduardo Esteves (IMPA) | Toric tilings, compactified Jacobians and limit linear series |
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| Friday | August 26 | | |
| 9-10 | Izzet Coskun (UIC) | The birational geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves on surfaces |
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| 10-10:30 | Coffee | |
| 10:30-11:30 | Tuyen Truong (Adelaide) | Some etale ideas in algebraic and topological dynamical systems |
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| 11:45-12:45 | Brett Parker (ANU) | Tropical enumeration of curves in blowups of the projective plane |
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| 12:45-2:30 | Lunch break | |
| 2:30-3:30 | David Jensen (Kentucky) | A nonarchimedean analytic approach to the geometry of general curves |
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| 3:30-4 | Coffee | |
| 4-5 |
Claire Voisin (CNRS) | Cubic fourfolds and O'Grady 10-dimensional hyper-Kaehler manifolds |
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