Artie Prendergast-Smith : An overview of the cone conjecture I

Posted by Mihnea Popa , part of the Algebraic Geometry Seminar.

At

Sept. 14, 2011, 4 p.m.

In

SEO 427

Abstract

I will give an overview of the different versions (due to Morrison, Kawamata, and Totaro) of the Cone Conjecture in birational geometry, and discuss some cases in which the conjecture has been proven.