Schedule

All talks take place in Coverdell Center.
Coffee will be available at Coverdell Saturday and Sunday mornings starting at 8am.

Friday, October 18

3:30-4:30 Registration and refreshments
4:30-5:30 Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène, Homogeneous spaces over function fields of curves over a local field

Saturday, October 19

9-10 R. Parimala, Period-index questions for function fields
Coffee break
10:30-11:30 Brendan Hassett, Moduli of quartic del Pezzo surfaces and classification of fibrations
11:40-12:40 Yuri Tschinkel, Universal spaces for birational invariants
Group photo
Lunch break
2:10-3:10 Filippo Viviani, On the cone of Moriwaki divisors
3:30-4:30 Margarida Melo, Comparing toroidal compactifications of the moduli space of abelian varieties
Coffee break
5-6 Izzet Coscun, The Higher Rank Interpolation problem and Bridgeland stability

Sunday, October 20

9-10 Sam Payne, Nonarchimedean methods for multiplication maps
Coffee break
10:15-11:15 Prakash Belkale, Gauss-Manin representations of conformal block local systems