Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 The effect of points fattening in dimension three
- 2 Some remarks on surface moduli and determinants
- 3 Valuation spaces and multiplier ideals on singular varieties
- 4 Line arrangements modeling curves of high degree: Equations, syzygies, and secants
- 5 Rationally connected manifolds and semipositivity of the Ricci curvature
- 6 Subcanonical graded rings which are not Cohen–Macaulay
- 7 Threefold divisorial contractions to singularities of cE type
- 8 Special prime Fano fourfolds of degree 10 and index 2
- 9 Configuration spaces of complex and real spheres
- 10 Twenty points in ℙ3
- 11 The Betti table of a high-degree curve is asymptotically pure
- 12 Partial positivity: Geometry and cohomology of q-ample line bundles
- 13 Generic vanishing fails for singular varieties and in characteristic p > 0
- 14 Deformations of elliptic Calabi–Yau manifolds
- 15 Derived equivalence and non-vanishing loci II
- 16 The automorphism groups of Enriques surfaces covered by symmetric quartic surfaces
- 17 Lower-order asymptotics for Szegö and Toeplitz kernels under Hamiltonian circle actions
- 18 Gaussian maps and generic vanishing I: Subvarieties of abelian varieties
- 19 Torsion points on cohomology support loci: From D-modules to Simpson's theorem
- 20 Rational equivalence of 0-cycles on K3 surfaces and conjectures of Huybrechts and O'Grady
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 The effect of points fattening in dimension three
- 2 Some remarks on surface moduli and determinants
- 3 Valuation spaces and multiplier ideals on singular varieties
- 4 Line arrangements modeling curves of high degree: Equations, syzygies, and secants
- 5 Rationally connected manifolds and semipositivity of the Ricci curvature
- 6 Subcanonical graded rings which are not Cohen–Macaulay
- 7 Threefold divisorial contractions to singularities of cE type
- 8 Special prime Fano fourfolds of degree 10 and index 2
- 9 Configuration spaces of complex and real spheres
- 10 Twenty points in ℙ3
- 11 The Betti table of a high-degree curve is asymptotically pure
- 12 Partial positivity: Geometry and cohomology of q-ample line bundles
- 13 Generic vanishing fails for singular varieties and in characteristic p > 0
- 14 Deformations of elliptic Calabi–Yau manifolds
- 15 Derived equivalence and non-vanishing loci II
- 16 The automorphism groups of Enriques surfaces covered by symmetric quartic surfaces
- 17 Lower-order asymptotics for Szegö and Toeplitz kernels under Hamiltonian circle actions
- 18 Gaussian maps and generic vanishing I: Subvarieties of abelian varieties
- 19 Torsion points on cohomology support loci: From D-modules to Simpson's theorem
- 20 Rational equivalence of 0-cycles on K3 surfaces and conjectures of Huybrechts and O'Grady
Summary
The conference “Recent Advances in Algebraic Geometry” was held between May 16 and 19, 2013, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to honor Robert K. Lazarsfeld (known as “Rob” among friends and colleagues) on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The conference honored Rob's outstanding contributions to algebraic geometry and the mathematical community, bringing together a large crowd, including many of his former students, collaborators, colleagues, and friends. It was a happy occasion for many of us who have known Rob and have been touched by his influence as students and peers, or simply as members of the algebraic geometry world.
From a personal point of view, we cannot even begin to discuss Rob's career without mentioning one of its most distinguished aspects, namely the unique influence he has had on the younger generations through teaching and mentoring. His style as a doctoral advisor and as an expositor is famous throughout the algebraic geometry community. He has been the advisor of more than 20 students, has numerous other mathematical descendants, and has mentored successful postdoctoral fellows. Many of these are now established mathematicians helping to expand the boundaries of Rob's mathematical vision. His generosity and ability to generate good problems, and his active support of the careers of his students, have been for many of us some of the most crucial aspects of our mathematical lives.
We highlight a few reference points in Rob's mathematical career. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1975, and his Ph.D. from Brown in 1980, under the direction of William Fulton. He then went back to Harvard as a Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor until 1983. During the 1981–82 academic year, Rob was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Mathematical Society, which he used to visit the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton while on leave from Harvard. There he met Lawrence Ein, with whom he would later develop a long-lasting collaboration, resulting in over 25 joint papers. In 1983, Rob moved as an Assistant Professor to UCLA, where he became a Professor in 1987.
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- Recent Advances in Algebraic GeometryA Volume in Honor of Rob Lazarsfeld’s 60th Birthday, pp. xi - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015