2023 Fields Medal Symposium: Caucher Birkar

October 16 - 20, 2023, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Description

The 2023 Fields Medal Symposium will honour Caucher Birkar (Fields Medal 2018), and explore the current and potential impact of his work.

The Scientific Program is intended for a wide audience, including graduate students, mathematicians in other research areas, and scientists who use mathematics in an important way.

Registration Instruction:

Please register here for the Scientific Program.
Note that the registration for the Public Opening and Student Night is separate.

Schedule

Monday, October 16th, 2023
09:30 to 09:45	Opening Remarks Kumar Murty, University of Toronto and The Fields Institute
09:45 to 10:45	Hodge theory and some questions about 2x2 matrices Daniel Litt, University of Toronto
10:45 to 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 to 12:15	Central models Vyacheslav Shokurov, Johns Hopkins University
12:15 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 15:00	Three-dimensional extremal contracƟons with 1-dimensional fibers Shigefumi Mori, Kyoto University
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break

Tuesday, October 17th, 2023
09:30 to 10:30	Geometry of arc spaces and related constructions Tommaso de Fernex, University of Utah
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	On algebraic subgroups of the Cremona group Enrica Floris
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 15:00	Moduli of boundary polarized log Calabi Yau pairs Kristin DeVleming, University of Massachusetts Amherst
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 16:30	Hyperkähler varieties from CY2 categories Alex Perry, University of Michigan

Wednesday, October 18th, 2023
09:30 to 10:30	The Calabi problem for Fano 3-folds Carolina Araujo, IMPA (Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Brazil)
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	Full exceptional collections on linear GIT quotients Kimoi Kemboi, IAS
12:00 to 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 to 14:30	The log minimal model program for excellent threefolds Joe Waldron, Michigan State University
14:30 to 15:30	On K-moduli spaces of Fano 3-folds Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros, Brunel University London
15:30 to 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 to 17:00	Studying the birational geometry of complex Fano hypersurfaces via characteristic p David Stapleton, University of Michigan

Thursday, October 19th, 2023
09:30 to 10:30	Higher rank finite generation and K-stability Chenyang Xu, Princeton University
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	Foliation Adjunction Paolo Cascini, Imperial College London
12:00 to 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 to 14:30	The singularities of the Minimal Model Program in positive characteristic Emelie Arvidsson, University of Utah
14:30 to 15:30	Birational complexity Joaquin Moraga
15:30 to 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 to 17:00	Wall crossing for moduli of stable pairs Ziquan Zhuang, Johns Hopkins University

Friday, October 20th, 2023
09:30 to 10:30	Symmetries of Fano varieties Lena Ji, University of Michigan
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	No Title Specified James McKernan, University of California at San Diego
12:00 to 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 to 14:30	A geometric journey Caucher Birkar, Tsinghua University
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break

Registered Participants

Name	Affiliation
Othman Abad	Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University
Harshith Alagandala	Western University
Abir Alharbi	King Saud University
Murat Altunbulak	Dokuz Eylül University
Paul Alves	Peel DSB
KWETI EMMANUEL AMABO
David Anderson	The Ohio State University
Rob Andrews
Camilo Angulo	Jilin University
Senguttuvan Annamalai	Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College
Annie Antonenko
Carolina Araujo	IMPA (Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Brazil)
Ege Artan	University of Toronto
Emelie Arvidsson	University of Utah
Sepideh Bahrami	Western University
Monika Bailey
Mortaza Baky Haskuee	The Fields Institute
Gustavo Banegas	INRIA
Michael Batista	University of Houston
Maryam Bayat	University of British Columbia
Paul Becker	The Pennsylvania State University
HOUARI benammar ammar	Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)
Dila Bhandari	Tribhuvan University
Edward Bierstone	University of Toronto
Caucher Birkar	Tsinghua University
Paul Blanchard	Boston University
Lev Borisov	Rutgers University
Prosenjit Bose	Carleton University
Ethan Bottomley-Mason	University of Toronto
Arthur Bruet	ESC SFA
Jeffrey Callen	University of Toronto
Andre C	Cp
Richard Cao	University of Toronto
Timothy Caron
Paolo Cascini	Imperial College London
Jose Castellanos	Supramotriz
David Castro Esteban
Paul Chafe	George Brown College
Hymn Chan	University of Toronto
edna cheung	Nanjing University
David Chillingworth	University of Southampton
Corina Chiriac	Mihai Eminescu High School
Zhen Han Chong	Sun Life Financial Assurance Company of Canada
Tony Chun
Cesar Colmenero
Cat Cou
Nicole Cuillerier	The Open University
Clifton Cunningham	University of Calgary
Dara Daigneault	Toronto District School Board
Tommaso de Fernex	University of Utah
Wei Deng	McMaster University
Kristin DeVleming	University of Massachusetts Amherst
Shreya Dhar	University of Toronto
Adama Diene	United Arab Emirates University
Walter Duck	Powertunnel Communications
Antun Dvorski	University of Toronto
Florian Enescu	Georgia State University
Nima Eslami	University of British Columbia
Malors Emilio Espinosa Lara	University of Toronto
Marcelo Etchegoyen	Universidad Maimonides
Lidong Fang	The Fields Institute
Denis Fernandes da Silva	York University
Neal Figueiredo
Enrica Floris	Université de Poitiers
Jason Fong	University of Toronto
Cole Franklin	University of Toronto
Linhui Fu	UC, San Diego
Bo Gao	University of Toronto
Joseph Geraci	Queen's University
Sajjad Ghaemi	NRC-Fields Collaboration Centre
Rozhina Ghanavi	University of Toronto
Peter Gibson	York University
Amiran Gogatishvili	Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Sacha Goldman	University of Toronto
Mantha Sai Gopal	Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning
Denis Gorodkov	University of Toronto
NARAN GORSIA
Jan Gorzny	Quantstamp
Pouyan Goudarzi	York University
Reinhard Grassmann	University of Toronto
Edward Green	Virginia Tech
Nathan Grieve	Acadia University
Michael Gruninger	University of Toronto
Sharmila Gunasekaran	The Fields Institute
Yuanxin Guo	University of Toronto
Pooyan Habibi	University of Toronto
Tariq Habib	Deloitte
Itamar Halevy
Ian Hambleton	McMaster University
Haoyang Han	University of Toronto
Gila Hanna	University of Toronto
Sarah Harasym
Deirdre Haskell
Kam Hazaveh	LAAB Fund
Fei Hu	Nanjing University
DongSeon Hwang	IBS-CGP
Ernesto Icogo
Colin Ingalls	Carleton University
Ken Jackson	University of Toronto
Harkirat J	University of Guelph
Lena Ji	University of Michigan
Kukkeprasanna J	Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru
Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros	Brunel University London
Akishi Kato	Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo
Irene Katzela	Dandelion
Kambiz Kazemi	Validus Risk Management
Kimoi Kemboi	IAS
Jawad Khan
Ahmadreza Khazaeipoul	University of Toronto
Henry Kim	University of Toronto
Janane Krayem	University of Toronto
Sanjeev Kumar	Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra
Marnie Landon	C 2 Infinity Corporation
Siu Cheong Lau	Boston University
Adesina Lekan	Obafemi Awolowo University
Kane Liao	University of Toronto
Bintao Li	York University
Daniel Litt	University of Toronto
Robbert Liu	University of Toronto
Ruizhen Liu	University of Toronto
Yawen Li	University of Toronto
Yifan Li	Western University
Yiqiang Li	University at Buffalo, SUNY
Elena Lukzen	Tsinghua University
Steven Lu	Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM)
Craig MacDonald
Kate Mac Donald	Home
Cynthia Ma
Arian Mahlooji
Odoi Makuru
Joshua Mamou	Tel Aviv University
Kenneth Manders	University of Pittsburgh
ALFREDO MARTINEZ SERRANO
Krystal Maughan	University of Vermont
Paul McAuley	University of Toronto
Oisin McGuinness
James McKernan	University of California at San Diego
Venkatesh Medabalimi	University of Toronto
Ehsan Mehr	University of British Columbia
Soheil Memariansorkhabi	University of Toronto
Iuliia (Yulia) Meshkova
Roxana Mihai
Alex Mirabella	University of Toronto
Chayan Kumar Mishra	Dr.R.M.L.Avadh University, Ayodhya, UP, INDIA
Yamkela Mkhontwana	University of Fort Hare
Morteza Moghaddassian	University of Toronto
Arsalan Mohajer
Shigefumi Mori	Kyoto University
Rahele Mosleh	York University
Soumo Mukherjee
Pelsamy Naiken
Erhard Neher	University of Ottawa
Somaieh Nikpoor	Government
Mostafa Nosraty
Yuliya N	Carleton University
Daniel Offin	Queen's University
Lydia Olabisi	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Sebastián Olano	University of Toronto
SANJAY OLI	Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore
Mollie O’Neill
James H.K. Ooi
James Hsu Kiang Ooi	National Research Council Canada
Marina Palaisti	Huron University College
Gabriel Penagos	Universidad Javeriana
Alex Perry	University of Michigan
Madeh Piryonesi	Toronto Metropolitan University
Puguh Wahyu Prasetyo	Universitas Ahmad Dahlan
Claudio Qureshi	Universidad de la República
Richard Raczkowski	City of Toronto
Mohammadmahdi Rafiei	University of Toronto
Mohsen Rahmani	Bank of Montreal
Marjan Rajabi	SOM
Ali Rajaei	Tarbiat Modares University
Farid Bima Ramadhan	INSTITUT TEKNOLOGI NASIONAL MALANG
Andy Ramirez-Côté	University of Toronto
Mikale Reddy	University of Toronto
Nischay Reddy	University of Toronto
Sara Rezaei	University of Toronto
Sheldon Richmond
Siobhan Roberts
Ramon Ronzon	University of Toronto
Alexander Ross
Sorour Rostampour	Western University
Amin Saeidi	University of Limpopo
Navid Samavati
Anamaria Savu	University of Alberta
Benjamin Schachter
Dana Schlomiuk	Université de Montréal
Saqib Mushtaq Shah	Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore
Kai Shaikh	University of Toronto
Lingyun Shao	University of Toronto
Jenny Shaw
Vyacheslav Shokurov	Johns Hopkins University
Gurnoor Singh	Prayag College
Komal Singla	Chandigarh University
John Skarha
Nicholas Smith	Meetup Group
David Stapleton	University of Michigan
Gerald Stein
Charles Steinhorn	Vassar College
Dendi Suhubdy	MILA
Catherine Sulem	University of Toronto
Chris Suurtamm	University of Ottawa
Austin Szuminsky	Brown University
Yun-chi Tang	University of Toronto
Jay Thye	University of Toronto
Peter Timusk	Statistics Canada
Evra Trought-Pitters	University of Windsor
Tomer Tsiporen
Lois Tullo	York University
André Tung	ATG
Yannis Tziligakis	Ventrisk
Habib Ullah	The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Vahid Soleimany	vahid soleimani
Amalrose Vayalinkal	University of Toronto
William Verreault	University of Toronto
Vladimir Vinogradov	Ohio University
AKUNGOIN PAULA VIZAS
Shima Vosoogh
Joe Waldron	Michigan State University
Chenglu Wang	University of Pennsylvania
Nanwei Wang	University of New Brunswick
Chris Watson
Leo Watson	University of Toronto
Xiaodong Wei	University of Toronto
Michael Wong	SickKids Hospital
Charlie Wu	University of Toronto
Chenyang Xu	Princeton University
Simon Xu	University of Toronto
Kaidi Ye
Chenxi Yin	Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)
Noriko Yui	Queen's University
Xue Ji Zhao	University of Toronto
Yiqiang Zhao	Carleton University
Reila Zheng	University of Toronto
Ziquan Zhuang	Johns Hopkins University
Guancheng Zhu	University of Toronto
Alex Zwart	Western University