Room 3176, Department of Mathematics, NCKU
(成功大學數學系 3176室)
Birational geometry of algebraic varieties in char p
Caucher Birkar (University of Cambridge &
Tsinghua University)
In this talk I will describe some of the recent advances in birational geometry over fields of positive characteristic focusing on surfaces and 3-folds. Although the results are quite similar to the case of characteristic zero but the tools used are quite different.