Previous Special Year Seminar

I will give an introduction to spaces of jets of algebraic varieties, explining their relevance for birational geometry. In particular, I will explain why these spaces are useful in the study of singularities.

In Lafforgue's proof of the Langlands conjecture for GL(2) over a functional field, an important step is to compactify the moduli spaces of Drinfeld's shtukas. In this talk, I will present a new approach to this problem using the Geometric Invariant...

We will discuss the ideas of the proof of the finite generation theorem, by looking at several special cases.

We start by stating the general form of the Minimal Model Conjecture and explain the relevance of some recent work of Bouksom-Demailly-Paun-Peternell. After that we describe the general picture of the proof of Hacon et al for the general type case.