Mini-course: Rational algebraic surfaces and birational maps between them

Time:

Venue/Location: Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM), Hanoi

Content:

Content:

This course is about rational and birational maps of the complex projective plane. Fundamental points and exceptional curves of a plane Cremona transformation. Quadratic transformations and De Jonquières maps. Properties like equations of conditions and Noether's inequality. Factorization of transformations and proofs of Noether-Castelnuovo Theorem. Cremona equivalence of plane curves. Properties of the algebraic variety parametrizing plane Cremona maps of fixed degree.

Expected participants: To undergraduate students, post-graduate students and young researchers with basic knowledge on Algebraic Geometry.

Lecturer: Alberto Calabri, University of Ferrara, Italy

Format: Hybrid (Zoom link will be available for participants from outside Hanoi)

Language: English

For registration, please click here.

Deadline for registration: June 20, 2024

Contact: 

Ms. Pham Thi Trang, pttrang@viasm.edu.vn 

Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Giao, ngocgiao185@gmail.com