Organised by
Jason Starr (SUNY Stony Brook)
Misha Verbitsky (HSE, Moscow)
Rationale:
The purpose of this workshop is to study
rationally connected varieties and their families.
Notions of rational connected varieties and the rational
quotient map play central role in modern algebraic
and complex geometry. Rational connectedness and its
delicate relationship with other Fano-type
birational properties remains one of the most
mysterious and fruitful subjects of birational geometry.
We aim to understand the results of the paper
"Families of rationally connected varieties" by
Graber, Harris and Starr (2002); more recent applications
of the same principle would be also discussed.
Partially supported by Dynastia foundation.
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