Tabes Bridges : An Introduction to the Minimal Model Program or: "Mommy, where do flips come from?"

Posted by Tabes Bridges , part of the Graduate Algebraic Geometry Seminar.

At

April 18, 2016, 4 p.m.

In

SEO 712

Abstract

I will recall the notion of a minimal algebraic surface and how one "runs the MMP" in the surface case. I will then outline the difficulties that arise starting in dimension $3$, state some of the basic structural theorems, and describe some of the ideas due to Mori, Shokurov, etc. which help to circumvent those difficulties.