WORKSHOP ON FUNDAMENTAL GROUPS (September 9-11) in Pisa

Cari colleghi.

vi invio il programma dello workshop che si terra' a Pisa la settimana prossima
nell'ambito dell'attivita' intensiva "Groups in algebraic geometry", con la preghiera di
diffonderlo alla mailing list del vostro dipartimento.

Vi ringrazio molto per la collaborazione.
Un caro saluto,

Rita

WORKSHOP ON FUNDAMENTAL GROUPS (September 9-11)
(Provisional schedule)

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Tuesday, September 9 -- Palazzo Castelletto, Aula Dini
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10.30-11.30: Alexandru Dimca (Nice)
"Characteristic varieties and logarithmic differential 1-forms"

11.30 -12: Coffe break

12.00 - 13.00: Oliver Baues (Karlsruhe)
"Virtually abelian Kähler and projective groups"

15.30 - 16.30: Ludmil Katzarkov (Miami)
"Homological Mirror Symmetry and braid factorizations: an approach"

16.30-17.00: Coffee break

17.00-18.00: Keiji Oguiso (Keio)
"Groups of bimeromorphic automorphisms of compact hyperkaehler manifolds"

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Wednesday, September 10 -- Palazzo Castelletto, Aula Dini
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10.30 -11.30 Mario Salvetti (Pisa)
"The Morse complex of a line arrangement"
(joint work with Giovanni Gaiffi)

11.30-12.00: Coffee break

12.00-13.00:
Eduard Looijenga (Utrecht)
"Fundamental groups of some moduli spaces that appear as quotients of braidlike groups"

15.30-16.30: Fritz Grunewald (Duesseldorf)
"Quotients of products of curves and their fundamental groups"
(joint work with Ingrid Bauer- Fabrizio Catanese - Roberto Pignatelli)

16.30-17.00: Coffee break

17.00 -18.00: Eckart Viehweg (Essen)
"Variation of Hodge structures of weight one and uniformization of subschemes of $\sA_g$"

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Thursday, September 11 -- Dipartimento di Matematica, Aula Magna

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10.30-11.30: Alex Lubotzky (Jerusalem)
"Counting arithmetic groups and arithmetic surfaces"

11.30-12.00 Coffee break

12.00-13.00: Yujiro Kawamata (Tokyo)
(to be confirmed)

15.30 - 16.30: Fabrizio Catanese (Bayreuth)
"Local fundamental groups of complex surfaces (an extension of Mumford's theorem)"

16.30-17.00: Coffee break

17.00-18.00: Thomas Delzant (Strasbourg)
"Cohomological constraints on Kaehler groups"