Previous Conferences & Workshops

The Franchetta conjecture (now a theorem) says basically that any line bundle on the universal family of curves of genus at least 2 restricts to a multiple of the canonical bundle on each fiber. We formulate a generalization of this statement for...

Can one predict the future arrangements of planets over extremely large time periods? For centuries this issue has triggered dreams of curious people, and hot debates by specialists including Newton, Lagrange, Poincare, Kolmogorov, Laskar, and...

In the mid 1980s, Mark Green and I conjectured that one could read off the gonality of an algebraic curve $C$ from the syzygies among the equations defining any one sufficiently positive embedding of $C$. Ein and I recently noticed that a small...

Searching literature you will find the following statement (I'm paraphrasing): "If $X_1,X_2$ are nonsingular schemes proper over a complete DVR $R$ with residue characteristic 0, and $\phi: X_1 \to X_2$ is birational, then $\phi$ can be factored as...

According to the conjecture of Bondal, the derived category of coherent sheaves on any smooth projective variety can be embedded as a semiorthogonal component into the derived category of a Fano variety of higher dimension. I will explain how this...

We consider elliptic curves whose coefficients are degree 2 polynomials in a variable $t$. We prove that for infinitely many values of $t$ the resulting elliptic curve has rank at least 1. All such curves together form an algebraic surface which is...

The sensitivity conjecture is a major outstanding foundational problems about boolean functions is the sensitivity conjecture. In one of its many forms, it asserts that the degree of a boolean function (i.e. the minimum degree of a real polynomial...

In recent joint work with Borman and Eliashberg, a new definition of overtwisted contact structures was given for high-dimensional contact manifolds, which were then classified up to isotopy. However, the definition is fairly cumbersome, so much so...

The André-Oort conjecture says that any subvariety of a Shimura variety with a Zariski dense set of CM points must itself be a Shimura subvariety. In recent years, this has been the subject of much work. We explain how this conjecture for the moduli...